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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 367 - Week 2 Football Recap · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is Ferndale junior Elliot Lenson and you're listening to
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  Speaker 1: the Walkom Preps podcast with Tyler Anderson. It's a matter
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  Speaker 1: of pride. Greetings and welcome into the Walkham Preps Podcast.
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  Speaker 1: This is episode three hundred and sixty seven, a week
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  Speaker 1: two football recap. I am Tyler Anderson of Walkham Preps
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  Speaker 1: and I'm ready to talk some football. I want to
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  Speaker 1: give it thank you to Ferndale junior running back and
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  Speaker 1: safety Elliott Lenson for the intro. Well, he had a
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  Speaker 1: whale of a game this past week. What a dynamic
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  Speaker 1: athlete he is now Walking County's leading rusher on the
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  Speaker 1: young season. That guy one cut and go and he
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  Speaker 1: can get to top speed so quickly. That's that's the
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  Speaker 1: big difference maker with the great ones, and he is
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  Speaker 1: a great one. So excited that he's just a junior. Again,
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  Speaker 1: thank you for the intro for Elliot Lenson. And h
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  Speaker 1: got to give a shout out to Kirt Mayberry Farm.
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  Speaker 1: sign up, go to class, and all of a sudden, boom,
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  Speaker 1: you're on the field. So the big big thing that's
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  Speaker 1: kind of the scary elephant in the room that's overlooming,
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  Speaker 1: we just got it. We have to have officials to
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  Speaker 1: play games. And you know, there's so many teams now
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  Speaker 1: and so many games across the week, and if we
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  Speaker 1: have to spread them out, we're gonna start getting a
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  Speaker 1: lot more Thursday and Saturday games and just kind of
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  Speaker 1: see how that goes with everything. So we got to
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  Speaker 1: go over a bunch of games here, so let's just
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  Speaker 1: start them off right away with the first game. It's
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  Speaker 1: kind of they're going to kind of come out in
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  Speaker 1: the order that I wrote them in, which is pretty
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  Speaker 1: much the chronological order anyways, that they were played. First
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  Speaker 1: game is the Knuksack Valley Pioneers defeating Life Christian Academy
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  Speaker 1: forty two to twenty six. I was at this game,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, I kind of went into it knowing
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  Speaker 1: a few things about Life Christian Academy. I knew they
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  Speaker 1: were in the States and my finals last year. I
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  Speaker 1: knew that had a really dynamic quarterback and a giant
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  Speaker 1: offensive line. They'd like to throw the ball a lot,
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  Speaker 1: and the quarterback and run. That's about what I knew.
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  Speaker 1: I showed up to sid Lambert Field and I was
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  Speaker 1: looking out there and I I, this is the honest
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  Speaker 1: to god truth. I think they had more cheerleaders than players.
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  Speaker 1: They did have a lot of cheerleaders, but they really
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  Speaker 1: did not have that many players. Now, the ones they
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  Speaker 1: had were really good, but I was worried about, you
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  Speaker 1: know what if guys get injured or guys aren't being
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  Speaker 1: subbed very much, and are they going to be able
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  Speaker 1: to last all four quarters? Kind of that kind of feeling,
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  Speaker 1: and that's sort of how it played out. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: Live Christian Academy looked really good right off the bat
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  Speaker 1: scored the first couple of touchdowns and I was thinking, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: they are for real, but can at last Nook sac
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  Speaker 1: Valley came back and scored the next two touchdowns. Live
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  Speaker 1: Christian Academy scores one right before the half. They held
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  Speaker 1: a one touchdown lead going into halftime, but it was
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  Speaker 1: all Pioneers in the second half. Now, there was a
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  Speaker 1: couple ejections. There was a lot of weird stuff going on.
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  Speaker 1: The quarterback for Life Christian Academy was ejected, so that
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  Speaker 1: really changed their game plan as far as you know everything.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he was really super dynamic through the ball
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  Speaker 1: for about two hundred and thirty yards in the first half,
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  Speaker 1: and he missed I think he was ejected, you know
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  Speaker 1: a little bit about maybe one or two drives into
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  Speaker 1: the third quarter and it just changed after that. They
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  Speaker 1: could not get into the en zone again except for
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  Speaker 1: a ninety three yard kickoff return, but the Pioneer scored
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  Speaker 1: four touchdowns in the second half to win forty two
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  Speaker 1: to twenty six. The Pioneers ran for one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: thirty three yards, passed for two hundred and eleven, Matthew
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  Speaker 1: Blake fifteen carries for ninety four yards and a touchdown.
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  Speaker 1: Trey Houghton four carries for twenty four yards and a touchdown.
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  Speaker 1: Evan Brown three carries for fifteen yards and a touchdown,
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  Speaker 1: So everybody who ran the ball for Knoiksack scored. Evan
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  Speaker 1: Brown was also twenty of twenty eight for two hundred
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  Speaker 1: and eleven yards and three touchdowns. He remains to be
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  Speaker 1: extremely efficient on the young season, very very accurate with
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  Speaker 1: his passes. Seems like he has a stronger grasp on
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback position this year, which tends to happen when
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  Speaker 1: you go from junior to senior year. And it's really
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  Speaker 1: going well for the Knucksack Valley Pioneers who are now
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  Speaker 1: two to zero. Dane Ackerman had six catches for eighty
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  Speaker 1: two yards. Jackson Hester six carries for six catches for
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  Speaker 1: forty nine yards and a touchdown. Jaden Jones three catches
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  Speaker 1: for forty two yards and two touchdowns. Matthew Blake, Cole
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  Speaker 1: Coppinger each had a couple of catches, and Trey Hut
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  Speaker 1: had a catch as well, So spread it out really
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  Speaker 1: good job there. Defensively, there was a lot of guys
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  Speaker 1: that did some good things, but I really liked what
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  Speaker 1: Caleb Visser did. I mean, that's a kid that you know,
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  Speaker 1: he's been on my radar for a while and now
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  Speaker 1: is a senior. At six three, two hundred pounds, he
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  Speaker 1: is you know. I love it when seniors get their
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to play and he's making the most of it.
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  Speaker 1: He had six tackles, two tackles for loss. I thought
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  Speaker 1: he had a whale of a game defensively. Other guys
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  Speaker 1: Jackson Hester again, just the energy he brings six and
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  Speaker 1: a half tackles, one and a half tackles for lost.
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  Speaker 1: Jayden Jones had four tackles and he broke up three passes,
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  Speaker 1: which I loved seeing that they were testing him. He
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  Speaker 1: was up for the challenge. And then some other guys,
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  Speaker 1: Max Lautenbach four tackles, a tackle for loss, a pass
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  Speaker 1: broken up, Tyler Martin had six tackles and a pass defended,
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  Speaker 1: and Matthew Blake from a safety spot seven and a
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  Speaker 1: half tackles. So good overall job there, and and just
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  Speaker 1: awesome to see the pioneers, you know, with all these
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  Speaker 1: new faces kind of step up and not be intimidated
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  Speaker 1: a lot of times when you get brand new starters
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  Speaker 1: at the varsity level, it takes a few weeks for
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  Speaker 1: them to kind of, you know, be at top speed
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  Speaker 1: and be ready for the collisions and all the things
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  Speaker 1: that varsity sports brings to you. But they they've looked
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  Speaker 1: good right off the bat, and they've played two pretty
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  Speaker 1: darn good teams. So now they've played them both at home,
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  Speaker 1: which is great. I think it's super great for a
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  Speaker 1: younger team, maybe not younger, but a first year a
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  Speaker 1: lot of guys with your varsity experience, to start off
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  Speaker 1: the season, you're in familiar surroundings. We'll talk about that
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  Speaker 1: later about Blaine, who has a ton of news starters.
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  Speaker 1: They haven't played a home game yet, and maybe that's
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  Speaker 1: kind of getting into them too a little bit because
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  Speaker 1: when you're first starting out and you're in the new stadium,
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  Speaker 1: you've never played him before, and it's it's it's just different.
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  Speaker 1: Uh So, you know, great for Knuksack Valley, they've been
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  Speaker 1: looking really really good. Two to zero on the season.
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  Speaker 1: They have their defense anyways, has not allowed a touchdown
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  Speaker 1: in the second half yet in these first two games,
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  Speaker 1: So that tells me a lot of things about Jessedikstra
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  Speaker 1: the defensive coordinator, is the way that he's adjusting to
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  Speaker 1: other offenses and getting the job done. So a great
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  Speaker 1: job there by knoksack Valley. The next game we're going
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  Speaker 1: to talk about was kind of an unexpected blowout, if
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  Speaker 1: he wills, the Linden Christian Links beating North Kitsap fifty
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  Speaker 1: six to seven. Our very own coach, Jeff Wood was
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  Speaker 1: at the game, and so we're gonna talk to him
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  Speaker 1: right now. Hey, Jeff, how you doing doing great?
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  Speaker 2: Tyler?
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  Speaker 1: How are you doing all right? Watched a lot of football.
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  Speaker 1: When every team plays a non Walking County team, it's
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  Speaker 1: a it's a lot of games to look at and
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  Speaker 1: stat and cover and all that stuff. But one that
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  Speaker 1: I had my eye on that I was looking forward
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  Speaker 1: to a good close game was the game you were
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  Speaker 1: at North kits App in town to face Lenny Christian.
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  Speaker 1: The Links win fifty six to seven. I did not
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  Speaker 1: see that coming, what say you? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: I didn't see that coming either. North kits Apps usually
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  Speaker 2: a pretty strong two A program. They're probably a little
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  Speaker 2: bit down. Uh, that's probably a little part of it.
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  Speaker 2: But Elsie just they played well on all three phases
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  Speaker 2: and you know, opening game at home.
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  Speaker 3: Big crowd and on the grass.
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  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure North kits Up has Turf, so that
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  Speaker 2: always helps when you're on your home field.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, big, another big win for for LC.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Lenny Christian's scoring three touchdowns in the first
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  Speaker 1: quarter and the second quarter. It you know, the one
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  Speaker 1: thing that you can really tell about the the good,
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  Speaker 1: like what makes a team great not just good, is
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  Speaker 1: from what I always see is early in the season
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  Speaker 1: they look sharp. You know, a lot of teams kind
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  Speaker 1: of figured out week four, week five and they look
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  Speaker 1: pretty good. But you know, the great teams look really
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  Speaker 1: good early. Did did it look like a week two
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  Speaker 1: game or I shouldn't say week two game, but a
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  Speaker 1: week two team with the lynx Er? Did it look
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  Speaker 1: like they were pretty sharp?
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  Speaker 3: They were sharp.
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  Speaker 2: They weren't perfect by any means, but they were they
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  Speaker 2: were definitely sharp, very balanced on offense. You know, Turf's
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  Speaker 2: really fall in love with the run game the last
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  Speaker 2: coup couple of years, which is great. So uh he
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  Speaker 2: establishes that run with Chris Queman and he's just a
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  Speaker 2: big battering ram. I mean, he is a load to tackle,
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  Speaker 2: so uh, you get you get a few times with
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  Speaker 2: him battering it up and then some some play action
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  Speaker 2: or some uh some passing game really works well.
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  Speaker 3: Off of that.
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  Speaker 2: When the defense starts stacking the box and you got
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  Speaker 2: Robertson and Hewliott uh making catches out there, those guys
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  Speaker 2: are tough to cover one on one, really good athletes,
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  Speaker 2: uh And Mayberry is a good quarter accurate quarterback, smart quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: So so yeah, the offense offense was putting up points
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  Speaker 2: all night.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know, having you know, a few short
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  Speaker 1: fields to work with and different things like that. But
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  Speaker 1: you know, one thing that I really like too is
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  Speaker 1: just like you were talking about, how balanced it is
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  Speaker 1: the run the pass, and you have a lot of
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  Speaker 1: different guys touching the ball. But one the one big
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  Speaker 1: question I had coming into the season with the links.
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  Speaker 1: There weren't a lot of questions, but one of them was,
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  Speaker 1: you know, replacing Trey Bosman on both sides of the ball.
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  Speaker 1: I think Caden Veldman's doing a great job as that
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  Speaker 1: kind of tight end that can be split out wide
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  Speaker 1: every once in a while, mismatch problem kind of guy.
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  Speaker 1: And then on the inside linebacker on the defensive side,
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  Speaker 1: I think Eli Stamps is doing a fantastic job as well.
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  Speaker 1: You know what if you liked about those two juniors.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean those guys are just stepping in and
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  Speaker 2: like you said, misnatch problem and uh, you know, making
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  Speaker 2: plays defensively. You know, they run that that three four
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  Speaker 2: or five two if you need it to be and
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  Speaker 2: they're aggressive. They're not they're not huge on the defensive side,
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  Speaker 2: but you know in high school, if you're tough and
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  Speaker 2: you're fast and they're running the ball, you can make plays.
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  Speaker 2: And right now they're they're doing that defensively and they
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  Speaker 2: have you know a lot of the same guys in
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  Speaker 2: the secondary that play offense as well.
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  Speaker 3: And those guys are good athletes.
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  Speaker 2: So it's been been good defensively as well as offensively
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  Speaker 2: for for LC.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. They just you know, I was I kind of
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  Speaker 1: had the game going on. I came home early Friday
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  Speaker 1: night from from Knooksack. That game started at six, and
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  Speaker 1: I was able to have you know, all the games streaming,
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  Speaker 1: and every time I looked down, they'd scored another touchdown.
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  Speaker 1: I'm updating the radio with the with the scores. It
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  Speaker 1: was it was really fun to see when you when
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  Speaker 1: you look at the one A. As a whole, they
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  Speaker 1: definitely have to be the team to beat, I would
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  Speaker 1: think in the Northwest Conference. But as far as a
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  Speaker 1: state run, do you see a state run with this team?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, they have that potential.
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  Speaker 2: I think you can't overlook any of the the teams
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  Speaker 2: up here. You know, Baker's looking good, Meridian's looking good,
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  Speaker 2: Nook sach Blaine.
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  Speaker 3: You know they'll give you their best.
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  Speaker 2: So that's always a tough conference schedule, and you know
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  Speaker 2: they have to stay healthy and all those things. But
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  Speaker 2: they they have the talent to compete. I think for
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  Speaker 2: that go a long way in the state playoffs.
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  Speaker 3: I think that Okanagan next.
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  Speaker 2: Week, which will be a kind of a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of a revenge game because they they got beat by
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  Speaker 2: him last year.
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  Speaker 3: I think they're big, huge quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: And I think he played d end on defense graduated
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  Speaker 2: the Okanagan guy.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, I think you were at that game last year.
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  Speaker 3: I was, I was. It was good, they competed, it
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  Speaker 3: was a close game, but Okanagan pulled it out right.
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  Speaker 1: And now they'll be traveling over the mountains to go
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  Speaker 1: to Okanagan. I believe that big quarterback defensive end is
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  Speaker 1: now at Boise State.
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  Speaker 3: I think, thank you're right, you're go.
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  Speaker 1: Play tight ends. So so it'll be interesting to see
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  Speaker 1: what they do over there. Coach Turp likes to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: play really tough opponents in the non conference and and
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  Speaker 1: why not with you know, the seeding committee and all
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  Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. If you're a team that believes
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  Speaker 1: that you can make the state playoffs, it's nice to
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  Speaker 1: get a better seat. And if you beat these you know,
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  Speaker 1: these really tough top teams around the state, it can
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  Speaker 1: only help. So yeah, it was a great, great win.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much coach for joining us on the
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  Speaker 1: coach's corner and uh, hopefully you'll be able to talk
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  Speaker 1: to you next week.
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  Speaker 3: Sounds good, Tyler.
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  Speaker 1: Well, thank you very much, coach, And uh boy, the
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  Speaker 1: links looked great there. And that is just you know,
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  Speaker 1: up and down that team. It's hard to find a flaw.
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  Speaker 1: It's just uh and they got a tough non conference
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  Speaker 1: schedule too, and it's gonna gonna remain tough this upcoming
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  Speaker 1: week on the road against Okanagan. So now we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: stay with us, go back to the six o'clock game here,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna go over the mountains here to Meridian at Omak.
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  Speaker 1: Meridian wins twenty two to fourteen, but it was twenty
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  Speaker 1: two zero at one point. The Trojans got off to
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  Speaker 1: a really hot start Trey Alexander with a couple of
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  Speaker 1: touchdown passes in the first quarter, but the Pioneers of
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  Speaker 1: Omak were able to make some adjustments and you know,
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  Speaker 1: kind of chant and kind of settled down the Meridian
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  Speaker 1: offense at that point. There was a lot of Meridian
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  Speaker 1: players' key players that were going down with heat, exhaustion, injury,
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  Speaker 1: different things like that, and they were able to hold
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  Speaker 1: on to win twenty two to fourteen. A big, big
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  Speaker 1: play in the second quarter, Casey Brennan intercepted a pass
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  Speaker 1: took it seventy two yards to the house. If he
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  Speaker 1: sniffs out a pass and intercepts that, there's no way
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  Speaker 1: you're going to catch him with that momentum he has
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  Speaker 1: coupled with that, you know, probably four or five speed
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  Speaker 1: that he has as well, So him taking that to
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  Speaker 1: the house that made it twenty to zero. That's what
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  Speaker 1: the score was at halftime. Meridian was able to get
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  Speaker 1: a safety in the third quarter. Omak did score a
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  Speaker 1: couple of touchdown runs in the fourth quarter, but it
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  Speaker 1: was kind of two little too late. Meridian holds on
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  Speaker 1: for the win. Trey Alexander leads the team in rushing
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  Speaker 1: six carries for thirty five yards, Ethan Valach eight carries
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  Speaker 1: for twenty four yards. Sawyer Strunk four carries for ten yards.
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  Speaker 1: Alexander was twelve of twenty eight through the air for
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and forty yards and the two touchdown passes,
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  Speaker 1: so he remains pretty efficient. A little bit lower completion
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  Speaker 1: percentage in this game than Week one, but still two
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  Speaker 1: to zero on the season, which is great. Casey Brennan
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  Speaker 1: had four catches for twenty six yards and a touchdown.
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  Speaker 1: Trevin Crabtree two catches for fifty two yards in his
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  Speaker 1: first touchdown of the year. River Todd had two catches
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  Speaker 1: for twenty yards. Case and Colpe had two catches for
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  Speaker 1: seventeen yards, and Daniel Larson and Jamis and Alexander each
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  Speaker 1: had a reception as well for Meridian. No Meridian was
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  Speaker 1: out gained in this game. Omak had possession of the
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  Speaker 1: ball for probably two thirds of the game, and the
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  Speaker 1: Trojans still find a way to come out on top. Now.
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  Speaker 1: That helps when you get a pick six and you
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  Speaker 1: get a safety. Those kinds of things can really turn
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  Speaker 1: around the score. I mean, that's eight points right there,
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  Speaker 1: and it was an eight point difference by the time
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  Speaker 1: the final whistle blues. So, you know, a really good
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  Speaker 1: job by Meridian. The defense was on the field a
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  Speaker 1: long time and Exavier Parent had a crazy, unbelievable game.
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  Speaker 1: Eighteen and a half tackles. That was a lot. He
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  Speaker 1: messaged me at the game goes, I didn't even he goes,
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  Speaker 1: that's that's a lot of tackles. I don't remember all
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  Speaker 1: that he goes. It was pretty crazy out there. He
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  Speaker 1: also had a tackle for loss, a sack of force, fumble,
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  Speaker 1: fumbled recovery. He just had just one of those crazy,
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: crazy games. When I do like this point system where
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: I give points for different defensive stats to kind of,
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: you know, give me some sort of ranking number. Usually
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: if that number is in the twenties, that is you know,
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: you're talking, you know, probably the best player of the
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: week so far as defensively. He had a score of
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: forty in that game, which is unreal. Ethan Vallach, who
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: was also in on a ton of tackles he had,
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: he had a big time game as well. He had
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: thirteen tackles, a tackle for loss, so he was the
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: two inside linebackers there. They were having to deal with
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: the omac that they had a fullback that had to
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: been two hundred and fifty pounds and could and had
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: pretty good feat too, but they had to deal with
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: him a lot and tackle him a lot. Casey Brennan
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: had the big defensive day as well, three and a
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: half tackles, a pass broken up. He had to pick six,
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: but he also had another interception, so two interceptions on
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: the day. Pierce Brozowski also had an interception to go
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: with his six tackles and pass broken up. River Todd
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: before he went down he had six tackles, two tackles
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: for loss, a pass broken up. You know him as
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: a defensive back. He's really good at making plays at
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage, very very sure handed tackler. Griffith Ingram,
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: the defensive lineman, just a freshman. Five and a half tackles,
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: two quarterback sacks. This kid starts on both sides of
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: the ball on the line and is very very good
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: and he's just a freshman. So when you start talking
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: about you know the freshman around Wakin County he's got
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: an edge over a lot of them. He is having
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: a tremendous year. There's been a couple guys standing out,
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: Rylan Cosson of Bellingham as well, the Griffith Ingram. He
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: is gonna be a guy we'll be talking about for many,
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: many years. Daniel Larson also had a pretty good game.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: Two and a half tackles, one tackle for lost, half
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: of a sack, and a forced fumble. So a lot
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: of guys on that defensive side of the ball for
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: Meridian really coming through and you know, guys going down
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: stuff like that. They still haven't played a home game yet,
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: so they'll be back home this upcoming week. That'll be
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: nice for them. I'll probably buzz out there for a
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: bunch or at least the beginning of that game, and yeah,
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: it's gonna be it's gonna be good. But hey, Meridians
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: starting out two to zero, good for them. That's a
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: you know, coming in this year, it was a big
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: question mark for me was how the Trojans were going
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: to be in there show me that they are a
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: team that is a state caliber team at the one
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: A level. So great, great job by them, Meridean Trojans
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: go up two and zero on the season. Murrey jump
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: over to Civic Stadium now as the Bellingham BayHawks just
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: throttled the Lakewood Cougars forty two to zero conference game
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: shut out in a conference game. There was a couple
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: shutouts this week. You just don't you just don't see
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: that very often in high school football. You know, usually
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: they'll get something on the board at the end. But
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: Bellingham secured that shutout, played a great overall game, you know,
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: I guess the only thing you could say that they
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: struggled with was kicking extra points. They they two of
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: them were blocked and one was missed, but then the
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: other after the other three touchdowns, they went for two.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: And they were three for three when they went for two,
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: so still ended up with forty two points. Joe Harvard
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: scored four touchdowns in the game. He took a he
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: took a reverse that he well, I guess you call
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: it an end around that he ended up going back
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: around where he came from and just out athleted ou
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: out athletic. Yeah, he just did really well with the
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: football and just ran down the field scored a touchdown
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: that was the opening touchdown of the game. Moments later,
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: Matthew Steele with a twenty three yard pick six and
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: they go for two to make it fourteen to nothing.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: That play really, you know, it happened right in front
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: of the Bellingham bench and it really got them going.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: And boy, momentum is such a huge thing when you're
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: talking about teenage boys. It's just that that push, and
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: it can go the other way too, as the Lake
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: of Cougar's probably just you know, hung their heads and
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: went are you kidding me? And then all of a
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: sudden it was just all Bellingham after that. Ben Leonard
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: throws three touchdown passes, all three of them to Joe Harvard.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: Sonny Powell runs in a ten yard touchdown run untouched.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't want to touch I wouldn't want to tackle
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: that either. You know, he's a load coming at you.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: You give the ball to a guy wearing number fifty
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: five in the backfield and I would just imagine that
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: he's not easy to tackle. Owen Hanstead leads the way
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: on the ground sixteen carries for sixty nine yards, Joe
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Harward three carries for twenty six yards and the touchdown.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: Sunny Powell two carries for ten yards and a touchdown
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: through the air. Ben Leonard was thirteen of twenty two
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: passing for one hundred and eighty seven yards, and I
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: love this. Three touchdowns, zero interceptions, extremely efficient. Spread it
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: out a little bit more. Joe Harward seven catches for
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty yards and three touchdowns. Milo Right
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: five catches for fifty seven yards and then in addition
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: to that a couple of two point conversions. Calvin hopwag
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: And had a ten yard reception and a two point
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: conversion as well. The defense, Hey pitch a shutout that
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: is fantastic. A lot of it was due to Sunny
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Powell coming back he missed week one, had a great
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: game in Week two and from that middle lineback spot
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: eight and a half tackles, two and a half tackles
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: for lost, two quarterback sacks. Huge game defensively. Joe Harwood
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: I thought played great defensively. He was. He playing in
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: a lot of different positions, some some linebacker, some safety,
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: you know, sometimes a rover outside linebacker kind of you know.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: He did a lot of different things. He had four
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: and a half tackles, one and a half tackles for loss,
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: a quarterback sack. He also broke up a pass. So
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: a lot of good things there, right, Ryland Claus And,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: like I was saying, the freshman defensive end, he had
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: two tackles, but he also had a strip sack and
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: he recovered a fumble. So that kid just keeps making
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: plays as a freshman. So that's really cool to see.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: Of course, Matthew Steele with the pick six, had a
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: big game defensively. Calvin van Hofwag and an Owen Hanstead
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: each had a handful of tackles. Van halfway and had
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: six and a half in a pass broken up Handstead
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: had five and a half and a quarterback sack. Yeah.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Barrett Johnson, the big six foot six senior defensive end,
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: had three tackles a sack. He also knocked down a
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: ball at the line of scrimmage, which is very capable
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: of with that rangy frame. Playing football for the first time,
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: enjoying it doing well. Bellingham defense, you got to give
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: it up to them. The offense did awesome as well.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: This was kind of you know, Week one was not
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: what I expected out of Bellingham. Week two was, and
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: so going forward, that's gonna be a great thing. They're
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: two to zero on the season, and already one to
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: know in conference play, they got extremely tough one at
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: home against Anacordus on Thursday, not Friday, so Thursday, so
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: be ready for that six pm kickoff at Civic Stadium.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: I will probably be out there for that one. When
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: there's a standalone football game in the county, I usually
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: try to make it. Having a little bit of car
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: issues at the moment, so hopefully I'll be able to
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: get out there. So let's go on to the next game.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: And that game was Ferndale defeating Oak Harbor in this
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: was I don't want to say must win, but after
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: that week one game and now you're playing a conference game, boy,
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: you really really want to pick up that win. You
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: don't want to go to own two. And they played
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: like it, especially in the first quarter. They scored four
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: touchdowns in the first quarter to kind of, you know,
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: I think to kind of just put it to bed,
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: like I think we're ready for this one. I think
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: we'll do just just find Elliott Lenson, huge game, you know,
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: the junior running back that gave us the intro twenty
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: carries for one hundred and fifty four yards and three touchdowns.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: You know, coming into this season, the kind. One of
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: the things I was saying was, they don't have that
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: go to guy that they can give it to twenty
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: times a game. They're probably gonna spread it out here,
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: spread it out there, do this, do that. You know
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: there's no Talon bung Guard or Isaiah Carlson or you
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: know one of the Brossel brothers, or but I tell
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: you what, Elliot Lentson just carried the ball twenty times
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: and showed that he could handle it. One hundred and
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: fifty four yards, three touchdowns, some great dynamic plays. That
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: was a lot of fun to watch. Jonathan Stanick eleven
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: carries for eighty nine yards. He also had a touchdown.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: Picks up those hard yards in bet the tackles just
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: run straight through guys. Perfect compliment to lens in the
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: full back half back dynamic there. I thought it worked great.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: The passing game, Nolan Boliac four of eight or seventy
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: six yards. How about Chance Hatchett with three catches for
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: sixty four yards. He had an amazing catch that went
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: for over forty yards that set up a touchdown. He
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: also had two touchdown receptions, of one of which was
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: just an extremely athletic play. You're talking a six twenty
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: five pounds sophomore tight end that is very very athletic
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: that you know, it just made some great, great plays.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: So I thought, you know, getting those pass plays in
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: there is crucial to Ferndale's offense because you know, you
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: can't just run, run, run, run. You got to be
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: able to surprise him a little bit with some passes
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: at which Ferndale always does. The guys creep up in
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: the box. They find that moment to go over the top,
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: and when you're successful with it, then you can't creep
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: up in the box. And that's what makes the running
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: game so dynamic for Ferndale. So and Ferndale ran the
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: ball for two hundred and eighty yards on forty nine carries.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: That's the Golden Eagles that were used to and that's
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: what's so cool. So that's you know, when I was
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: watching it, it had so much fun with that watching that.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: I mean, they were out twenty six to nothing after
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: the first quarter and it was like, yep, this is
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: this is more like it. This is Ferndale football. Really
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: really great to see. On the defensive side of the
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: adult ball, Max Cowie, the defensive end he had he
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: had two tackles for loss. I thought he had probably
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: the best, you know game as far as a defender goes.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: They weren't really on the field a ton Okarb only
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: ran forty plays, but there's a lot of different guys
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: getting the job done. Of course, John Stannick always does
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: a great job in the middle of the field five
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: and a half tackles. He had half a tackle for loss.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: Trey Munson right in the middle there this big six
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: foot three, six foot four, two hundred and seventy five
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: pounds sophomore defensive tackle. Had a couple of fumble recoveries,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: one like back in our third play of the game,
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: which gave friend of the ball to score right away,
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: and then he had one late in the game too,
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: So that was that was really really good to see.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: You know, Ferndale the West go three A North is
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: just the biggest mystery to me, partially because there's only
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: one Walking County team it being Ferndale, so I never
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: really know, you know, who's up, who's down. You know,
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: I would expect Sidro is gonna be pretty good, but
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: you just never know. Mount Vernon has some great athletes
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: and you just never know. So that conference is up
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: for grabs. In my eyes, I'm just I just don't know.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: I just don't know who those teams are. You know,
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: is Stanwood gonna be good? You know, Cigar Willie, Mount
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: Vernon each have wins in the in the conference along
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: with Ferndale. So I'm gonna guess that those are kind
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: of the maybe the teams, and that Ferndale is gonna
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: have to be chasing. Those three teams are one and
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: Ohero Snahomas does not played a conference game yet. And
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: oh and one is Stanwood, Marysville Getchel and Oak Harbor.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: Of course, Marysville Getchel will be coming to town on
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: Friday to take on Ferndale. Ferndale will be playing in
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: their first home game of the season. And so yeah,
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: really really excited about that. Golden Egles looked looked good,
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: and they looked like, you know, they looked like Ferndale
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: gold Egles and that that was kind of the best part.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: That's what I was excited about. So so good for
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: them evening their record at one and one. And we're
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: gonna jump down to Anna Chordus now is they hosted
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: the Seahome Mariners and this was a heck of a game.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: I listened to as much of it as I could
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: on the radio as I was fielding texts so from
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: other you know, scores of other games and then kind
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: of relaying it to the radio guys. And it was
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: kind of a hectic Friday night, and but hectic in
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: the best way possible. But what I was listening to
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: a lot of was this Anacordus Seahome game. And you know,
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: the two times state defending champions. They looked like right
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: off the bat, they were up twenty to seven in
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: the first quarter. It was actually seven to seven early
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: when Nolan Wright hit Al Miller on a thirteen yard
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: touchdown pass, but the tie was short lived as the
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: ensuing kickoff was returned ninety one yards for a touchdown.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: So it was, you know, it was kind of like that.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: That was kind of like the Seahawk, you know, way
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: of like not breaking your heart, but like, oh, you
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: had a you know, you were with us for this
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: little bit and then boom, here you go, here's a big,
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: big play. And when they hooked up on the forty
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: two yard touchdown pass to Zeke Hawkins that made it
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: twenty to seven, I was thinking, oh, oh boy, see
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: whom really came back in that second quarter, great great plays.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: Nicky Smith had a touchdown run, theo Quiggle had a
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: huge game, caught a seventeen yard touchdown pass from Nolan Wright,
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: and then they traded touchdowns at the end. Sawyer would
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: scored a touchdown run right before the half. Baine Mitchell's
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: extra point made it a twenty seven to twenty six
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: lead for the Mariners at halftime. And that's what was,
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: you know, so so cool about it is they they
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: hung with Anta Chordis for the for the first half.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: The second half, you know a few mistakes were made
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: by by Seahome and you just you can't make any
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: against a team like Anta Chordis. And the Seahawks outscored
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: the Mariners twenty six to six in the second half.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: So they come away with the fifty two to thirty
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: three wins. Seeholme goes to one and one on the year.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: And the rushing numbers. Nolan Wright led six carries for
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: twenty seven yards, Sawyer Woods had ten carries for twenty
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: three yards and the touchdown. Nolan Right through the air
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: twenty one of forty seven passing for three hundred and
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: eight yards. Three touchdowns and the one interception. Boy, he
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: was moving around back there a lot and had a
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: had a He's so accurate with his passes and they're
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: they're and they're so crisp, but there's so many times
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: he just had pressure in his face. And the defensive
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: backs are so athletic for anti chordas that those windows
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: would close up pretty fast. On the receiving I said earlier,
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: theo quiggl had an amazing game nine catches for one
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty yards and a touchdown. Al Miller five
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: catches for seventy six yards and two touchdowns, Hudson Nef
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: four catches for fifty yards, Gunner Anderson two catches for
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: twenty three yards, and Tyson Goodman won catch for nine yards.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: On the defensive side of the ball, it was Hudson
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: Nef as usual. He had eight tackles a tackle for loss.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: That guy is all on the field all the time,
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: and I was I wasn't concerned, but I was questioning
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: how his defense was gonna be this year now that
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: he's playing a much bigger role or he's just playing
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: a role period. On offense. He hasn't played offense the
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: last couple of years he's been a stalwart on defense,
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: but now playing a lot of minutes both ways, it
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: seems like it has not toned down his defense at all.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: He's still leading the way there. Like I said, eight
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: tackles and a tackle for loss. Logan Rodgers on the
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: defensive line, Boy, he is a lowed six tackles and
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: a tackle for loss as well, So you know there
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: was there were some good things there. I think that know.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: Tyson Goodman had a quarterback sack as well. Al Miller
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: had an interception. Seahom is the real deal, and uh,
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: you know, we all kind of looked at this was
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: going to be the big first conference game and it
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: was gonna tell us a lot. It was gonna tell
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: us as Sea Home elevated themselves to that upper echelon
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: of teams in the two way. And they they have.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: I mean they It answered my question, it should have
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: answered everybody. And I'm really really excited for what they
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: can do because you never know, maybe they'll meet each
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: other again in the playoffs, and it's hard to beat
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: a team twice in this in the same year. That's
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: what's so fun. And you know, if they don't slip
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: up and be If they're one of those top four teams,
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: which I think they should be, then they will be
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: in the playoffs. And and ac Cordos though, my goodness,
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: yes they graduated. You know a lot of skill guys
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: that are playing Big Sky right now, but boy, they
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: have a new crop and they are fantastic. You know,
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: I usually do not pay attention to names that are
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: not Walking County names, but Ryan Harrington and See Hawkins
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: and Micah Dickinson and Luca Moore. It's like, you know
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: those names, like I should not know those names, but
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: I do. You know. Part of it's because they're multiple
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: multiple sport athletes, but part of it is because they're
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: that good at football, and it forces me to have
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: to know who they are. So, uh, coach Port's great job.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: You know, you're doing an amazing job. And it's a
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: it's fun to watch up here because and even when
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: I'm watching and just taking stats of your games, it's
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: like watching a college football game. It's just that it's
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: so much faster than usual, and it's it keeps me
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: on edge. So an amazing job, Ceo, Mariners, an amazing job.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: What a great game that was, and uh, boy, it
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: was everything that high school football is cracked up to be.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: We're going to jump now back to the six o'clock
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: game as Mount Baker traveled all the way down I
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: five to Bush Prairie, Washington to take on the Hawkinson Hawks.
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: And the Hawkinson Hawks, if you don't know, boy, they
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: liked to run the ball. They did throw the ball
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: five times, but they ran it forty seven times. And
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: they are all about ball control and you know, loading
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: up and everything and just just going forward like a
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: lot of players, you know, the quarterbacks, the lead blocker
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: when he pitches it, that kind of stuff. And it
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: seems like we've seen a little bit of this, you know,
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: with Franklin Pierce and Lynnwood and different teams like that
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: that are very very very run heavy, and Mount Baker
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: you know, shows up in their four to three defense
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: and just says bring it. And the Mountaineers looked really
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: good early on Cam to Moa with a couple of
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: touchdown runs in the first quarter. Hawkinson did have a
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: long drive that ended in a run in the second quarter,
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: but uh, you gave Mount Baker a little bit of
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: time left, and I tell you what, when there's just
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: a minute or two left in the first half. That
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: is when I call it. The Togajet comes out and
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: uh Toga Tiglau to jet ross thirty yard touchdown pass
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: and the old Togajet play. And they ran it again
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter and it hooked up for a
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: forty three yard touchdown pass the Toga jet and then
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: Bryce Cooper with a forty one yard touchdown run late
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: in the game to ice it away thirty five to seven.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: Mount Baker ran the ball for three hundred yards and
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: average double digit yards per carry. They average eleven point
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: one yards per carry. And you know you can allow
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: you can average eleven point one yards of per carry
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: on like four or five carries, but when you do
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: it for the entire game, that's incredible. And I'll and
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: here's here's the crazy thing. I don't know what the
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: deal is with side judges and spotting the ball, but
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to do stats, and I'm dead serious. I
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: watch the play, he gets tackled at the forty three
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: or whatever, and then when I see the spot starting
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: the next play, it's a yard off. Like it's always
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: a yard against Mount Baker every single time I saw
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: this when they played to Nino in the playoffs. I
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: tell you what, playing games on the roads sometimes, you know,
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: officiating a little weird. But I swear it was like
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: every single play. So I had to keep like going
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: to my stats and going minus one because it was,
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: you know, it was a yard less than I. Then
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: it appeared to be on the play, and then every
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: time it was spotted, you take a yard away. So
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: I was kind of shocked by that. But I tell
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: you what, Coach Lepper's as a coach that will see
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: that and might bring it up here or there, and
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: then he'll just keep it to himself and he'll be like,
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: all right, fine, boom, here you go, boom, boom boom,
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: and he'll just he'll just he doesn't care. He'll just
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: he'll just keep coming at you and hitch you in
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: the mouth and you try to stop it, and he'll
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: do it the classiest of ways when at the very
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: end you get down to the one yard line and
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: then take a knee right before the game's over, which
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: I love. That's like the coach lepist thing I've ever seen,
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: and he's been doing that for years. Bryce Cooper ten
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: carries for one hundred and forty eight yards and the
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: long touchdown run. Camden Moa eight carries for ninety five yards,
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: two touchdowns. I think Camden on the year right now
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: is averaging fourteen yards of carry. Noah Nicole Mills four
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: carries for forty four yards, Gage Smith two carries for
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: fifteen yards. Togo is three of six through the air
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: for eighty nine yards and all three receptions were by
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: Jet Ross and two of them went went for touchdowns.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: And you know, the offensive line was amazing. I had
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: heard that. I mean, I was watching Kiden Rita Sell
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: pull from that left tackle spot and he was just, man,
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: it's just different, Like you see guys that are that
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: big and that athletic that can pull like that, and
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: when he's wearing red and black, it's it's it's just
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: there's just been a wave of these guys through the
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: years that Mount Baker's had. But he he really really
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: looked the part. And I had heard that there was
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: a flag or he was talk to by the officials
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: that said, you know, the next time, like you block
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: a guy and drive him into the ground, it's going
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: to be a penalty or I'm kicking you out or
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: something like that. And I'm thinking if you're gonna throw
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: a kid out for playing football too well, then I'm sorry,
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: Like that's not going to go well with Mount Baker
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: stuff because they play the game the right way. And
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: that's pretty crazy when I heard about that, and then
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: when I watched the game, I mean, he was just
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: so dominant and that whole offensive line did a great job.
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: And it's really sad to see that Noah Ilacheff has injured.
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: You know, arguably the best offensive lineman on that team.
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: He was an All Conference first team selection last season
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: and got injured in Week ones. I saw him standing
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: on the sideline and crutches, and that's just heartbreaking. But
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: they got guys. Silas Maple just a sophomore, but boy,
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: he looks the part. Aaron Torres at center, Jeremiah Sheridan
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: at guard, Peyton Zamzau at right tackle. He moved kel
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: Reardon out to tight end. And you know, when coach
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: LEP's got an offensive line that he really likes, he
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: usually has a season that he really likes. And they
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: will be put to the ultimate test on Saturday when
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: they host the Bellevue Wolverines at two o'clock, and that
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: will be a Humdinger, if there ever was one. I
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: can't wait for the culture shock when Bellevue comes to
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: town and realizes they can't fit everybody in the locker room.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: They you know, it's just they're gonna be playing on
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: grass for a lot of them, maybe for the first
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: time ever. It's gonna be it's gonna be cool. And
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: you know, I love that coach Lep is up for
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: the challenge. And obviously Bellevue is a huge favorite here.
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: But Mount Baker will compete, and that's what's fun is
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: they will do everything they can to compete. And defensive
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: side of the ball, they had a lot of guys
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: that stood out. Kel Reardon once again, nine tackles, two
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: and a half tackles for lost. There were a lot
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: of times too where he would make the stop and
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: I had to rewind it because it looked like the
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: running back would just kind of trip up. And then
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: when you go back in slow motion, you realize that
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: that six foot six frame of kel Reardon reaching way
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: out and just grabbing the shoe last second and tripping
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: him up is what did it in So being that
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: rangy and that strong is a huge benefit for Mount Baker.
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: Andrew monteeth I swear all five foot three of them
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: is just a tough as nails linebacker. Six and a
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: half tackles, a tackle for lost. He also had a
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: huge stop where he hit the guy, forced the fumble
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: and recovered it all on the same play on a
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: guy twice his size. That was really really cool to see. Yeah,
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: Jeremiah Sheridan, he had you know, he missed week one.
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: He came out in week two, played a great game
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: both sides of the ball. Had five tackles, three of
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: them for loss. Zion Peglia gets his second interception of
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: the season. Camp Den Moa getting nine tackles in the
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: middle of the field like he always seems to do.
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: Peyton Zamzau six tackles, two tackles for loss. Noah Nicole
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: Mills seven tackles, one tackle for loss. So the defense
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: really did the job as well, giving up just the
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: seven points. And then you know, it was a weird
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: offense to play against, but they were up for the
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: task and and they better be up for it next
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: week because they're gonna be Yeah, they're gonna have to
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: really load up the box in that one against Bellevue,
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: and that's the trick. That's that's a tricky thing, is
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: you better stop their fullback within the first three or
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: four yards because he could be gone if if he's
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: not stopped early. So we will be talking about that
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: game when I talked to Coach Left later in the
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: week on the Gatorade Game Day preview, I'm sure there'll
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: be some fun talks about that game and how it
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: came out and stuff like that. So, uh yeah, let's
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: go ahead and move on to Saturday's games. Now, Saturday.
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: The earliest game on Saturday was Blaine going down I
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: five to take on pl Walapa Valley. The Titans a
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: really strong two B team, and man after a scoreless
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: first quarter, Payale scored three touchdowns in the second quarter,
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: but a lot of them were, you know, due to
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: something weird that happened right before then. I mean there
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: was Blaine had an interception and then the guy who
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: intercepted it fumbled it and and the Titans fell on
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: it and they had an automatic first down. Then like
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: a few plays later they scored, and then they kick
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: off and it's a good kickoff return to like midfield,
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: but there's a fumble and Payale falls on it. Next
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: play scored. It was stuff like that. It was just like,
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: oh man, and that's what's gonna happen with with young
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: teams that are playing in a place they've never played
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: them before. And but I tell you what, Blaine got
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: better than they were in Week one. I definitely think
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: they got better. Still got to work on the run
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: game a little bit. Finished with negative two yards rushing.
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: Some of that had to do with a couple of
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: quarterback sacks and stuff like that that count towards your
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: rushing stats. But pretty good job passing the ball. Connor
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: Brown sixteen to thirty for one hundred and eighty two yards.
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: Kay Kerwin also completed a forty seven yard pass excuse
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: me to Landon Brown on a double pass play, so
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: that was promising to see as well. Connor Brown had
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: a six yard touchdown run. He also threw a touchdown
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: pass to Peyton Peyton Bama seven catches for one hundred
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: and twenty nine yards and a touchdown. He also kicked
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: the extra point. Played great on defense. He kind of
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: did everything. Kay Kerwin seven catches for thirty three yards.
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: I talked about Landon Brown's catch for forty seven. Hunter
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: Candanoza had a nineteen yard reception, and Isaac Bauma had
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: a catch as well. The defensive side of the ball,
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: you know, I was talking about Xavier Pairing scoring forty
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: points in my points system as far as defensive numbers
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: go and equations and stuff like that, well, Axel Shelton
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: was one point off. He had thirty nine points. He
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: had sixteen and a half tackles, three tackles for loss,
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: a force bumble, and a quarterback sack. Axel Shelton is
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: built to play middle linebacker, and I just loved what
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: he did in that game. It seemed like so many
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: times there would be a ball carrier with a ball
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: and he was just kind of a guy would come
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: out of nowhere and he was tackled immediately like solo
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: tackled no help, and it would happen so fast it'd
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: be hard to see it. I'd have to rewind it
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: and look for the number. Almost every time it was
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: number nine, and I just thought, my goodness, he's just
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: out there. Make him play after play after play. Peyton
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: Bauma did really well on defense as well. Because of
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: the offense they were going against. He kind of went
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: from his strong safety spot to almost like an outside
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: linebacker spot playing up a lot more making plays in
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: the backfield. He ended up with six tacks, two and
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: a half tackles for loss, a quarterback sack. He also
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: uh knocked down a pass, So a really good defensive
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: game for him. Say whu Kanaji the the young sophomore
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: outside linebacker eight and a half tackles, a tackle for
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: loss and a pass broken up as well. And then
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: how about the freshman safety Jackson Boguards was four and
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: a half tackles, He had his first career interception, and
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: Hunter Candanoza also had an interception. So you know the
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: defense they did. The defense, You know, they fly around
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: and they make plays, but you know they just you
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: make one weird little mistake on defense and it can
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: it can cost you. And that's kind of what happened
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: in this game. You know, Blaine playing outscored them in
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: the second half. It was just the second quarter that
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: kind of did them in and that that was really it.
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: But there are some positives and you know they'll be
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: they'll be at home finally for their first home game
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: on Friday against Shelane. The radio I think is out
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: there for that one. I'll be out there for that one.
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: So I'm really excited to see the border rights at
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: home in front of their home stand, you know, their
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: home fans, and it's just I think it'll help energize
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: those those younger players. They finally get to play in
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: the stadium that you know that they're used to practicing
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: in stuff like that, and I think it could really,
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: you know, go a long way towards getting their first
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: win of the season. Of course, they're going against Totolanta,
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: who I don't think has lost a game this year,
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: so it's not going to be easy. Well, let's go
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: on to the crazy game of the weekend, and that
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: was Lyndon beating Franklin Pierce twenty one to twenty. My
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: goodness was this was nuts watching this game. I mean
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: it had a little bit of everything. I mean, right
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: off the bat opening kickoff, Danny Bowler returns at eighty
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: eight yards for a touchdown. That kid is lightning fast
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: and so boom. I mean, what's weird is I know
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: the score going into the game. That's always like, I'm
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: always curious kind of how it played out, but I
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: know what the score is. So I was not expecting
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: the opening kickoff to be returned for a touchdown, which
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: it was, and it was really great to see Danny
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: Boehler doing that eighty eight yards. Malachi canan with the
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: extra point in the second quarter, I mean there was
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: kind of some back and forth. I mean there was
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: an interception thrown and but in the second quarter, Gordy
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: Bedlington hit Danny Boller on a great pass kind of
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: down the left scene where Bohler jumped up and got
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: it and then he was off. That was a seventy
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: yard touchdown. So Danny Bohler touched the ball at this
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: point two times and he totaled what one hundred and
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: fifty eight yards and two touches, and he scores two touchdowns.
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: Malachi can and kicks each point and Lyndon's up fourteen
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: to nothing on the road against one of the top
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: teams in two AA. I tell you what, Franklin Pierce.
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: They also ran that straight t double tight offense where
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: everyone's packed in a pham booth playing football, but they
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: ran it really well, really deceptive. I mean there were
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: so many times when the handoff took place and I
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: had no clue who had the ball and it was
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: and they're wearing all black and they're all bunched up together.
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: So it was just kind of like this black hole,
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: you know football. I mean, it was hard to tell
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: what was going on. And but Lyndon was so good
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: at staying home doing what there's you know, with their
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: you know, gap responsibility or gap integrity or whatever you
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: want to call it. And then if and then just
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: tackle everybody, and boy, they they did a great, great
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: job and and just seeing the play going and getting
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: the guy who had the ball Franklin Pierce though thirty
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: eight yard touchdown pass before the half, they get the
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: two point conversion, and that was kind of a thing
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: that was happening a little earlier on when Franklin Pierce
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: would pass, it would kind of shock Linden and then
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: they could complete a deep one. They did their thirty
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: eight yard touchdown pass, and then in the third quarter,
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: Franklin Pierce gets a long sustained drive, the score a
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: three yard touchdown run, tie it up at fourteen to fourteen.
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: You go in the fourth quarter with the score tied,
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: and there was a kind of a weird you know,
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: first of all, Lucas Lolgi was injured and was not
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: able to play. He did get banged up. We talked
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: about it a little bit last week in the Ferndale game,
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: either a foot or an ankle, which is always tough.
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: But that's why, you you know, that's why they love
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: having the two quarterbacks. And Gordy Bevington was ready to
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: go in this one, but they had another. They had
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: the sophomore quarterback, Austin Postma, who was going to be
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: kind of their number two in this game where they
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: put him in every once in a while. And there
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: was a play I think it was on It was
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: on third down and Bedlington I believe either he mishandled
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: the snap or he got sacked or something kind of
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: weird happened. And on the next play, Postma came in
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: on fourth down and it was four than two. It's
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: a tie game in the fourth quarter, and they have
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: all the trust in the world in the sophomore. I
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: loved it. And he took the snap through it right
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: over the middle to Brody Price who just caught it
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: and just was off the races. Forty two yard touchdown.
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: And how about that? I mean, that was you know,
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: that's the When you talk to coach Van Dalen about
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: his team this year, he loves the depth. He loves
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: that it doesn't matter who's on the field, he can
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: call any play. And that's a tremendous example of that.
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: When you know a sophomore quarterback is out there, he's
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: your third quarterback, and it's fourth down in a tie
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: ball game on the road against a state playoff team,
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: and you have the trust in the world he's going
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: to complete a pass, and he does, and that can
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: lift a kid's spirits so much. Brody Price finishes the
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: job forty two yard touchdown pass and it puts Linden up. Now,
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: put Linden up when they got I don't know, eight
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: or nine minutes to go in the fourth quarter, and
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: Franklin Pierce put together one of those long, crazy drives again,
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: little by little, by little, by little by little, and
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: all of a sudden they spring a twenty one yard
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: touchdown run with about a little over a minute to go. Now,
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: that made the score twenty one to twenty. Lyndon had
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: the advantage. You know, Malachi Caainen three for three on
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: extra points, right, so you're good. Franklin Pierce was not
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: kicking extra points. They relied on that offense to get
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: two points each time, which it worked the first time,
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: it did not the second time, so this time it's
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: you know you're gonna do it again, but this is
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: for the game. Basically, there's only a minute six left
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: or something, and they go for it. Malachi Canan makes
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: the stop behind the line of scrimmage in theory, wins
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: the game for you. Franklin Pierce lines up to kicking
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: on side kick and boy, I tell you what, they
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: hit it perfectly. You want to get that second bounce
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: to go up in the air on the on side kick.
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: It's a player that I used to practice a ton
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: in high school. And if you get that, boy, it's
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: so hard. It's so hard to do a little easier
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: on on the artificial turf, which this was. And boy,
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: he hit it just right to where the second one
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: bounced in the air and Franklin Pierce got on it.
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: And then it was weird because it's like a minute left.
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: They're down by one. We don't know if they have
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: a kicker because they haven't kicked an extra point, and
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: so because the field goal would win it, they have
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: the ball. They're in Linden territory, but there's not a
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: lot of time left, so they're gonna have to throw,
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: which they're not adapted at doing, especially if Linden knows
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: you're gonna throw. So on first down and second down
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: they drop back to pass and Dane Marty, the senior
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: outside linebacker, gets a quarterback sack on each play. I mean,
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: it was just back to back sacks. It was awesome,
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: and that put them in a third in the world
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: and they just dropped back and threw it deep. Lofa
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: Tiglau intercepts. It seals the game for Lindon. What a great, great,
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: you know, regular season, non conference game. It was. Thank
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: you so much to Chris Price, who was live streaming
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: the game. I know I was able to catch the
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: fourth quarter as I was writing stories for other games
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: that kind of had it going on, just to kind
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: of get it, you know, get updates and see what
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: was going on. And for some reason, the NFHS stream
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: was not working. It wasn't working for the blame game either,
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: so I was a little perturbed about that. But you know,
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: Chris Price, bless you for doing that. Chris. I also,
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: I don't know if you know this, but we actually
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: played baseball together in junior high in like a summer
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: League All Star Game at Joe Martin Field against the
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: City team is County vs. City. You were in center field.
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: I was in left field, and so I remember you
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: from that. You probably don't remember me, but boy, if
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: your parents' videotape that game, I made an awesome catch
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: and left field at Joe Martin Stadium, So you know,
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: if it happened, I would love to see it, doesn't
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: you know, it's I'm sure you don't have it, but
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: thank you so much for recording that game. Lynnen wins
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: twenty one to twenty and it was a huge win
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: because of the seeding implications and stuff like that. You
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: go at the end of the year, Franklin Pierce could
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: win their conference. They could be you know, have the
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: only one loss on the year, if they could be
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: undefeated in their conference play, and they're gonna, you know,
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: want a top seed. But you know, Linnen could have
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: a couple of losses and they could say, well but
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: Lynnen beat you. So it's a really and they beat
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: you at your play. So it's a really good game
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: to have that win in for seeding, you know implications,
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: and the Northwist Conference will be well represented when it
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: comes to that, so great job by Lyndon. Lynden only
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: ran the or had twenty seven plays of offense. Franklin
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: Pierce had the ball for seventy three plays. I don't
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: know if I've ever seen that big of a discrepancy.
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: And they lost. And you know, Franklin Pierce had almost
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: one hundred more yards than Linden did and lost rush
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: running the ball. Max Austinc Nine carries for forty four yards,
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: Scorty Bedlington nine carries for twenty one yards. Bedlington four
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: of eight through the year for ninety yards and the touchdown.
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: He did throw two interceptions Postma one of one for
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: forty two yard touchdown. We talked about that. Danny Bowler
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: two catches for eighty one yards and a touchdown, Brody
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: Price two catches for forty seven yards in touchdown, and
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: lo Fa Tigelau had to catch as well. So huge
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: win for Lindon defensive wise, I mean they were on
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: the field a long time again. Malachi Canan fifteen tackles,
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: one and a half tackles for loss and a forced fumble.
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: Zay Harris, boy, he's so strong as a defensive lineman.
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: Twelve tackles, one and a half tackles for loss. He
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: was so good at kind of like not worrying about
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: the guy in front of him blocking. He could just
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: shed that guy and sniff out what was happening. He
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: made a lot of tackles in that game. Really really
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: good to see there. Dane Marty with those two sacks
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: was huge. He also had five and a half tackles
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: and another tackle for loss. Brody Price had a couple
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: passes broken up. He had an interception that was actually
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: called back due to a penalty. Adam Holman had five
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: tackles and a tackle for loss. So a lot of
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: good things on that Lindon defense as well. Coach Whitman, bravo, buddy, great,
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: great job. And I don't even have the sound effect
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: to play and you don't deserve it. You deserve the best,
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: my friend. So the final game Squalicum at home beating
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: Marysville Pilchuck sixty seven to zero. This was kind of expected,
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: maybe not that big of a score, but it was
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: thirty five zero after the first quarter. I mean it
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: was You know, the Tomahawks are young. It looks like
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: a lot of first year varsity guys, maybe guys that
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: have ever played football before. There was a lot of
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: times when they looked like they did not want to tackle.
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: There was some injuries that happened, a ton of penalties
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: early on, just kind of made the game drag on
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: and on. But you could tell that they're just kind
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: of new to football, you know, brand new coach, trying
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: to get things done the right way. But you're doing
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: it in the toughest conference in the state, so really
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: really tough to get that going. But a squalicum, you know,
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: you play who who's in front of you? Right, They
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: ran for two hundred and twenty yards. They completed twelve
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: of thirteen passes for one hundred and sixty five yards. Yeah,
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: it was. It was pretty darn good up and down.
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: Elias laar Naga the kicker. He was eight of eight
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: for extra points and he hit a field goal. There's
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: not many kickers, and I'll be updating the record books soon,
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: but not many kickers that can say they've scored double
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: digit points in a game just from kicking. I don't
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: know off the top of my head how many have
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: done it, but it hasn't been very many, probably, you know,
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: less than ten. But he will find himself in the
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: in the record book there. I keep a top fifteen
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: in the record books for every single record for football related.
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: You can find that on Walking preps dot com. Asher
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: Osby Ornson six carries for sixty seven yards and three touchdowns.
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: He also had a two point conversion run. Yeah. Dj
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: Hill eight carries for sixty two yards and a touchdown.
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: Cole Burke had a touchdown run. Maddix Strickland, the former
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: Mount Baker player. Now, he played a little bit, even
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: as a freshman at Baker. I think he kicked off
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: or he did something, played a little bit and he
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: got He got in the game late. He had to
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: only touch the ball four times, but he scored. He
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: scored a touchdown, had sixty nine yards. He ended up
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: leading the team in rushing from that. Avery Wiener three
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: carries for twelve yards. Cole Burke extremely accurate, twelve of
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: thirteen through the air for one hundred and sixty five
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: yards and a touchdown. Anson Osby Ornson on the receiving
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: end of that touchdown. Seven catches for one hundred and
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: six yards. Kalil bent To three catches for twenty six yards.
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: Asher Osby Ornson with a twenty five yard reception and
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: DJ Hill with an eight yard reception. They also had
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: some touchdowns in other ways. Asher Orosby Ornston with a
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: twenty one yard pick six. That's the second week in
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: a row that Squalum has a pick six. I swear
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: in the last I don't know, six or seven years,
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: they probably got fifth to fifteen of them. I mean,
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: they just they seem to get a bunch every year,
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: you know, and it's it's just it's just a really
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: well coached defense, really really well well coach defense. And
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: then Zach Watt, he just he flew through the line.
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: No one looked like they wanted any piece of them.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: On a punt play and the ball ended up on
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: the ground in the end zone, he just recovers it
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: scores his first varesty touchdown. This was it was all
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: Squalalkum all the time. Sixty seven to zero win over
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: Marysville Pilchuck. The Tomahawks with their second big, big loss
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: in a row at Civic Stadium. Luckily for them, I
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: don't think they have to come up to Civic Stadium anymore.
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: This year. They will be playing Bellingham on their home field.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean that's that kind of wraps up
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: it was a pretty darn good week for Walkam County teams.
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: Uh Squalcum evens their record at one in one, as
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: does Ferndale. So you know, Blaine oh to two, but uh,
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: you know everyone else and see Home they dropped to
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: one and one, but they're still five hundred. Everyone else
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: is two and oh so you know, I it's uh,
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: it's pretty it's pretty crazy. Uh, it's it's been a
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: great start to the to the season overall. And yeah,
• 1:01:26
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  Speaker 1: the senior quarterback from lynnon Christian thirteen of fifteen, passing
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  Speaker 1: for two hundred and thirty three yards and five touchdowns.
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: Oh and he ran for a score as well, So uh,
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  Speaker 1: out there. I mean, everyone talks about the x's and o's,
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  Speaker 1: you still have to have the Jimmy's and Joe's out there.
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  Speaker 1: You had what you had three pick sixes this week.
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  Speaker 1: You had guys with tons of tackles, like reaching close
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: to twenty tackles and uh, you know, sacks and force
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: fumbles and all sorts of things. But I went with
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: Xavier paren from Meridian, the senior linebacker. Eighteen and a
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: half tackles. I one tackle for loss, one sack, one force, fumble,
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  Speaker 1: one fumble recovery, did a little bit of everything. I
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• 1:03:26
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• 1:03:29
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• 1:03:32
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• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: and like all four appendages just wrap around the body
• 1:03:37
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  Speaker 1: Lara Naga, Lara Naga. I'm gonna say it right. One
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  Speaker 1: He was eight for eight and extra points and he
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: kicked a twenty yard field goal. But I had to
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: give it to Danny Bohler of Lindonpe to return the
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: opening kickoff eighty eight yards for a touchdown. That really
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: set the tone and by the time the end that
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: game was over with that, it showed how much how
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: meaningful it was to score that touchdown. He did have
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: another kickoff return, so he told him two kickoff returns
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: for one hundred and four yards. Of course the one
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  Speaker 1: you saw the film, you would agree. Boy. He had
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: some great, great plays and he's a guy that won
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  Speaker 1: this award once last year too, so a repeat winner
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: here and great job by him. Mount Baker ran the
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  Speaker 1: ball for three hundred yards and did so by averaging
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: over eleven yards of carry in the game. And he
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  Speaker 1: thirty five pounds of a guy that could really move
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  Speaker 1: And that pretty much wraps it up. We talked about
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: all the games, a lot of great, great things happening
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  Speaker 1: here and so glad that I'm able to bring it
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  Speaker 1: more thankful, And but in a few days we'll be
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: talking again. It'll be it'll come out a day early
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: because there is a Thursday game. The Gatorade Game Day
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: football preview will come out on Thursday, which means my
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: week just got a little crazier having to get that
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: done a day early. So but that will be coming
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  Speaker 1: out on Thursday morning, so be ready for that, and
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: until then I will talk to you in a couple
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: of days. This has been episode three hundred and sixty seven,
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: a Week two football recap on the Welcome prep for podcast.
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: Talk to you later.