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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 302 - Fall Sports Wrap Up 11-10 · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is cross country state champion Little Destler of Sea
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  Speaker 1: Home and you're listening to the walkcom Preps podcast with
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  Speaker 1: Tyler and Ryland, Bill Mariners.
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  Speaker 2: Greeting X and Welcome into the watcom Preps Podcast. This
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  Speaker 2: is episode of three and two of Fall Sports, a
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  Speaker 2: weekly wrap up Bob Ryland Spencer along with me as
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  Speaker 2: always is Tyler Anderson of watkum Preps. Tyler, how are
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  Speaker 2: we doing?
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  Speaker 1: We are doing good, Ryland. I love your little robot.
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  Speaker 1: They're going, uh yeah, doing great. What a crazy week
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  Speaker 1: it was and weekend of sports, just tons of playoffs
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  Speaker 1: and different things as far as winter to state loser,
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  Speaker 1: you're out state state championships for cross country. It was
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  Speaker 1: a crazy week. You know, it's always weird.
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  Speaker 3: Because like I know it's coming and I'm still like
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  Speaker 3: behooved by it. You know, I'm just like, holy cow,
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  Speaker 3: this is this is a lot, you know, And last
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  Speaker 3: back I've said this over and over again last fall,
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  Speaker 3: I wasn't covering cross country. I wasn't covering girls soccer,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I wasn't covering a lot of these sports.
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  Speaker 3: So I did volleyball, did football.
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  Speaker 1: And I did boys tennis. That was it, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't doing I wasn't doing girls swimming either, so
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  Speaker 1: so it's a lot. But boy, it gets exciting this
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  Speaker 1: time of year. Yeah, it does get exciting.
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  Speaker 2: I mean today, Tyler, is you and I record this
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  Speaker 2: with A couple hours ago is when the brackets came
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  Speaker 2: out for what soccer, volleyball, and football. So yes, it's
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  Speaker 2: it's here, I mean it is here, is officially here.
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  Speaker 2: We need to give a thank you to Lil Dressler Seahome,
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  Speaker 2: sophomore girls cross country runner. Tyler, you put something in parentheses.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to say it because we're going to
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  Speaker 2: get to it here in a few minutes. We need
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  Speaker 2: to give a thank you to Kurt Mayberry Farm. Kurt
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  Speaker 2: we got a new sponsor, yep, and it's one that
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  Speaker 2: I think you and I are both very happy to
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  Speaker 2: have on board. I was I was almost gonna say
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  Speaker 2: passionate about I don't know that you and I are
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  Speaker 2: passionate about officiating, or else we would probably be officials.
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  Speaker 2: But I think you and I both very much appreciate
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  Speaker 2: the work that the officials do, not only in Walkham County,
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  Speaker 2: but all over the state. I mean there's uh, there
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  Speaker 2: is a lot of officials that make it a big
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  Speaker 2: time effort to be very good at what they do.
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  Speaker 2: And we have a new sponsor here on Walkcom Preps
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  Speaker 2: NW officials dot com. Do you live in Walcom, Scadget
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  Speaker 2: Island or San Juan County and want to become an official?
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  Speaker 2: Officiating is a great way to give back to your
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  Speaker 2: community and ensure our youth have an opportunity to compete
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  Speaker 2: in athletics. Visit them online nwofficials dot com and find
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  Speaker 2: out how you can become an official Today, Tyler, officials
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  Speaker 2: are needed, I mean definitely needed, especially you know basketball,
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  Speaker 2: there are so many games, I mean so many games,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, in all sports, officials are needed, and
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  Speaker 2: so head on over to NW officials dot com. You'll
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  Speaker 2: be hearing about them a lot now on the podcast,
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  Speaker 2: So prepare for it. People, If somebody wants to get
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  Speaker 2: a hold of you, Tyler and become a sponsor here
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  Speaker 2: on Walkom Preps.
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  Speaker 1: How do they do that? Yeah, getting a hold of
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  Speaker 1: me through social media is always the best way. Twitter, Instagram,
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  Speaker 1: Facebook to search for Walkome Preps and send me a
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  Speaker 1: message through there, So that's always the best way. And
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  Speaker 1: a lot of these, you know, I know, like on
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  Speaker 1: Facebook especially, like it has my phone number right on there.
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  Speaker 1: You can give me a call or send me a text,
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  Speaker 1: whatever's easiest for you. You know, there's i think it
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  Speaker 1: even has my email address on there as well, So
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  Speaker 1: there's all sorts of different ways and we just kind
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  Speaker 1: of get the ball rolling from there. I mean it
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  Speaker 1: is you know, as this is coming out, we're one
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  Speaker 1: week away from Winter sports practice starting, so uh you
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  Speaker 1: know November eighteenth is when Winter sports practice begins, and
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  Speaker 1: so yeah, it'll be all of a sudden, it'll be
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  Speaker 1: a new batch of sports and away we go, and
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  Speaker 1: and a lot more sponsorship opportunities at that point. So
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  Speaker 1: so very very exciting. It's really easy to jump on
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  Speaker 1: board and get a hold of me and we make
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  Speaker 1: something happen.
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  Speaker 2: And you're right, your phone number and your email address
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  Speaker 2: are right there on walk Them Preps on Facebook and
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  Speaker 2: look at you. You even got the the link to
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  Speaker 2: the Instagram and the Twitter. Ya, Tyler, you're You're far
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  Speaker 2: more advanced than I thought you. And you got eleven
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  Speaker 2: reviews one hundred percent recommended. I didn't even know you
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  Speaker 2: had reviews. I didn't know I had reviews either. Joel
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  Speaker 2: Lacey Burns don't know her, but she says Tyler is
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  Speaker 2: amazing at what he does. He really loves it and
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  Speaker 2: loves it and it truly shows. Oh, it was a
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  Speaker 2: little harder to read than I thought. Brett Williams, it's
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  Speaker 2: Tyler freaking Anderson. I've known this guy since seventh grade.
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  Speaker 2: He's the number one sports guy.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Brett sounds like a good dude. Is how about one
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  Speaker 2: more Becca reared in maybe related to Kel I don't know. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: great source for all things sports in Wacom County. And
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  Speaker 2: then there is a spam comment on hers back, which is.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of funny. But yeah, that's from twenty thirteen. Tyler.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see when's the newest one? November fourth, Joel Lacy
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  Speaker 2: Burns November fourth, So, Joelle, thank you, So.
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  Speaker 1: That was like a week ago. Yeah, she's an official.
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  Speaker 1: She's a volleyball official. So oh there you go.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, unbelievable. You talk about like full circle.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it's just yeah, it's right there, right in
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  Speaker 2: your face, Tyler. We got all kinds of things to
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  Speaker 2: talk about here. We got cross country who had their
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  Speaker 2: state championships over the weekend. We've got a volleyball, got
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  Speaker 2: girls soccer, girls swim and dive, the district championships. The
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  Speaker 2: only thing we're not going to talk about here is football.
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  Speaker 2: That podcast will come out on Tuesday morning. Yeah, all
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  Speaker 2: those Saturday games, Tyler, I mean I think we uh
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  Speaker 2: kind of kind of saw this coming, but all those
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  Speaker 2: Saturday games kind of pushed everything back, so, uh, just
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  Speaker 2: easier for us to do it this way. And I'll
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  Speaker 2: we've been doing it here might be the way of
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  Speaker 2: the future. Because I'll tell you what, it works out
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  Speaker 2: pretty well. It seems like we get maybe even better
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  Speaker 2: numbers doing it that way.
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  Speaker 4: Like, I don't know, you drive a lot, but we
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  Speaker 4: already drive it all Tyler, Oh, I guess that's true. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it's only eight miles eight miles from here to Boffel
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  Speaker 4: High School and pretty much I've worn out the road
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  Speaker 4: along one sixteenth and one twenty fourth. Let me tell
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  Speaker 4: is about all I do anymore.
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  Speaker 1: Tyler.
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  Speaker 2: Let's talk girls. First cross country. They had their state
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  Speaker 2: championships over in Pasco at sun Willow's golf course. Right
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  Speaker 2: there at the airport, you can catch a flight, maybe
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  Speaker 2: jump right out of the plane and just land right
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  Speaker 2: on the eighth green and just take off from there.
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  Speaker 2: But one A Girls Meridian they finish sixth. Cedar Park
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  Speaker 2: Christian brings home the championship. But yeah, the Trojans a
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  Speaker 2: strong showing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it's that was kind of expected. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they've been pretty dominant in the one A locally, and
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  Speaker 1: so I was I was kind of expecting that. I
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  Speaker 1: was always I'm always curious, like we've talked about in
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  Speaker 1: the past, kind of how they would rank around among
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  Speaker 1: other teams in the state. So a sixth place finish
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  Speaker 1: very very impressive. I know there's some underclassmen runners for them,
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  Speaker 1: so I'm excited to see what they do in the future.
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  Speaker 2: On the two way side of things here, Seahome comes
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  Speaker 2: away with the state championship, another dominating performance on their part,
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  Speaker 2: and of Court is another one that's fairly local. They
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  Speaker 2: did place second. But Tyler, what are some of the
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  Speaker 2: some of the names we need to know about there?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, well, seem this was expected, you know, and that's
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  Speaker 1: just that's just kind of the way that it goes,
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  Speaker 1: but really great showing by walking county here with Lil Dessler,
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  Speaker 1: the sophomore from Sea Home who gave us the intro.
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  Speaker 1: She's your state champion, and in second place just nine seconds,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, eleven seconds behind her was Sloan Dixon from Lyndon.
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  Speaker 1: So they've been one and two in a lot of
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  Speaker 1: races this year, and of course and then boom, here
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  Speaker 1: they are one and two at the state championships. Sloane
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  Speaker 1: Clinbs from Sea Home the freshman in fifth place, Sidney
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  Speaker 1: Harry from Sea Home in ninth, Samantha Nip twelfth, Sandra
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  Speaker 1: Voight from Squalicum. Top Squalicam finishers get sixteenth. Zaiah Smith
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  Speaker 1: is the top Bellingham finisher, she gets nineteenth.
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  Speaker 2: The three A Mercer Island wins the championship ninety points
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  Speaker 2: on their part. Bishop Blanchett finishes second with ninety one.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah, crazy, that's.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's unbelievable. Ferndale does not place in the top ten,
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  Speaker 2: but they did have a runner over there at the
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  Speaker 2: state tournament.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Katie Manley, the senior from Ferndale, exactly twenty minutes
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  Speaker 1: on the dot, good enough for fifty ninth to place
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  Speaker 1: exactly exactly twenty minutes. Yeah, twenty minutes, zero seconds point
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  Speaker 1: zero zero. I mean that seems hard to do. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I would imagine maybe they rounded, I don't know, but yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but it seems like, yeah, like a one and sixty
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  Speaker 1: chance exactly. Yeah, she's it's and she's been the top
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  Speaker 1: runner for Ferndale for a while. Yeah that's uh.
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  Speaker 2: I mean honestly, like the score is almost the most
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  Speaker 2: impressive thing or the time. Yeah, like the how the
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  Speaker 2: heck do you do that? On the boys side. On
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  Speaker 2: the boys side, Cedar Park Christian wins the state championship Meridian,
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  Speaker 2: though they placed third the the Trojan Boys doing some
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  Speaker 2: damage over there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and this one surprised me a little bit. I
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  Speaker 1: knew they'd be the top team one A wise from
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  Speaker 1: Walkam County, but I thought they'd be in that kind
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  Speaker 1: of that sixth seventh spot. So then for them to
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  Speaker 1: finish third is awesome. And you know, really really impressed
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  Speaker 1: with Ruben Taveldi, who you know, he had a great time,
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  Speaker 1: finished sixth place, the sophomore from Meridian, and Nicholas lou
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  Speaker 1: who that's who I expected to take state. He gets
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  Speaker 1: fifteenth place. I'm not sure if there was an injury,
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  Speaker 1: if he wasn't feeling well. But that kind of surprised
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  Speaker 1: me a little bit because and this might be the
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  Speaker 1: first race for Reuben beat Nicholas and to do it
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  Speaker 1: at the state championships, says a lot Noman, Jacobi Astra Todd, Canyon,
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  Speaker 1: James Kellen Todd, and River Durbin all from Meridian finishing
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  Speaker 1: there with good times to propel their team to a
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  Speaker 1: third place finish.
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  Speaker 2: The two A boys Bellingham finishes fourth with one hundred
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  Speaker 2: and five points, Allensburg third eighty seven, Bainbridge second with
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  Speaker 2: seventy nine, and Seahome they are your two A state
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  Speaker 2: champions with thirty four. I mean that is a dominating performance.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And we talked about the sea On boys team
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  Speaker 1: and how they were ranked nationally. I think they're ranked
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  Speaker 1: at one point twenty eighth in the nation and that
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  Speaker 1: was that was about a month ago, so who knows
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  Speaker 1: since then if they've moved up or whatever, and really
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  Speaker 1: really impressive. Didn't have a solo state championship. Actually was
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  Speaker 1: an Anna Cortus runner that won this that won the
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  Speaker 1: individual state title or if you look on the wiaa's
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  Speaker 1: graphic it says instead of Anna Chordis, says Annie Wright.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, so I can call him Annie Cortis.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure. I almost wanted to redo the graphic
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  Speaker 1: but Annie Cordis. But I'm not that mean. I just
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  Speaker 1: am I mean on the podcast? Yeah, yeah, though these
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  Speaker 1: are just things that crossed through my brain. But see Home,
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  Speaker 1: I mean one, two, three, four, five, six, seven finishers
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  Speaker 1: in the top nineteen. That's unbelievable. That's crazy. Nick Argano,
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  Speaker 1: who uh, one of our guys that gave us an
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  Speaker 1: intro a while back. He finished second place in State
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  Speaker 1: fifteen minutes twenty nine point two seconds. You think about that,
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  Speaker 1: you're running basically, you're running three miles in fifteen twenty nine.
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  Speaker 1: That's just incredible. Uh. Skyler Gillen from Sea Home to
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  Speaker 1: finish and fourth, Heath Terry twelfth, Jackson Rogers thirteenth, Dylan
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  Speaker 1: Hill fourteen. So you got twelve, thirteenth or fourteenth all
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  Speaker 1: within a second of each other. With Seom, they're just
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  Speaker 1: they're just chatting and having a good time. Hey, we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna do awesome at State. Boom twelve thirteenth to fourteenth.
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  Speaker 1: Sebastian Vaheed right behind them, only two seconds behind them
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  Speaker 1: in sixteenth place. Berkeley Pass of Bellingham eighteenth, Baines Matchinski
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  Speaker 1: from Bellingham took seventh, and Judson Bareth of Seom nineteenth,
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  Speaker 1: Porter Chessbro of Bellingham thirtieth. A lot of big time
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  Speaker 1: athletes that we've talked about all year, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure a bunch of them will be coming back
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  Speaker 1: for next year to see them boys and girls. I
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  Speaker 1: mean we were asked this, you know, Coach Would We
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  Speaker 1: were watching the Sea hom football game together and we
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  Speaker 1: were asked something about how many is that in a row?
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  Speaker 1: And we just we just kind of looked at each
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  Speaker 1: other and shrugged, and that's that's really impressive when you
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  Speaker 1: just don't know how many they've won and who it's
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  Speaker 1: happened so much, it's like, yeah, it's been a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Like I don't think the runner, I don't think any
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  Speaker 1: of the runners on the team know any different. So
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  Speaker 1: it's been at least four years in a row. Really
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  Speaker 1: really impressive. It's starting to rival kind of the Seam
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  Speaker 1: Jym Nash six run that they went on for a while.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a top top program has been for a
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  Speaker 1: while and doesn't look like it's going anywhere soon.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm just going back here, Tyler. Twenty nineteen, they
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  Speaker 2: won the state championship. Twenty eighteen, they won the state championship.
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  Speaker 2: Twenty seventeen boys or girls boys, Okay, twenty seventeen, they
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  Speaker 2: won the state championship. Twenty sixteen, they won the state championship.
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  Speaker 2: Twenty twenty fifteen, they won the state championship. Twenty fourteen,
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  Speaker 2: they won the state championship. Twenty thirteen. I mean, this
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  Speaker 2: is ridiculous at this point. Yeah, they won the state championship.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Tyler, this is unbelievable. Yeah, we can keep
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  Speaker 2: going here. I mean, now I'm intrigued. Twenty thirteen, excuse me.
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  Speaker 2: Twenty twelve they won the state championship. Twenty eleven second
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  Speaker 2: oh to limber. Yeah, come on, I mean that.
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  Speaker 1: And and by the way, one twelve to one thirteen.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and that year Patrick Gibson was the state
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  Speaker 2: champion from Squala compus.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was gonna say that's a squal I remember him.
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  Speaker 1: He holds like some I think he holds a long
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  Speaker 1: distance record for track and field, like county record, or
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  Speaker 1: he's up there.
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  Speaker 2: I know that now here. Here's a here's a crazy
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  Speaker 2: thing for you, Tyler. So, Connor Johnson was the fifth
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  Speaker 2: place finisher in state. He was from Seahome. Seahome also
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  Speaker 2: had the eleventh place finisher. Limberg did not have anybody
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  Speaker 2: in the top fifteen, but they had eighteen, nineteen and
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  Speaker 2: twenty one and thirty one, so they had a lot
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  Speaker 2: of points before Seahome really got another one, you know
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  Speaker 2: what I mean, right, yeah, or not a lot of points, however,
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  Speaker 2: you want to say a lack of yeah, yeah, they were.
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  Speaker 2: They were lacking points in the which is a good
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  Speaker 2: in the system. Yeah, it's a good thing. That's that's wild.
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  Speaker 2: So twenty eleven the last time Seahome did not win
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  Speaker 2: a state championship, although I must admit I didn't look
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  Speaker 2: at the last two years, so just taking oh they
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  Speaker 2: have yeah, okay, I mean I figured they had, but
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  Speaker 2: I just all that is went straight to on the
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  Speaker 2: other side of COVID and went from there.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: So anyway, that is that is boys and Girls cross
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  Speaker 2: country done for the year. Mari Staffer's sponsorship it is
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's looking to he's looking to boys swim and.
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  Speaker 2: Dive here, boys swim and dive the winter sport.
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  Speaker 1: He's jumping off that diving board right out of the pool.
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: Now will he do that act? Like? Oh man, I
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: should I should have like a cross country race with
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: him where we basically walk around the lake at Lake
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  Speaker 1: Padden and then and then we'll we'll do a diving
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: or swimming competition and then some track and field events.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he'll probably want to do some throws. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he's a little bigger than I am. You guys could
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  Speaker 1: jump into the lake, big strong former lineman.
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: You know, maybe maybe he you could get up on
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: his hand and he could shot put you into the lake.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: Well he's not that big and okay, yeah.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, uh, Tyler, let's talk what do we go about
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: girls soccer?
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: How about that girls soccer? Let's do it.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: North County Alliance FC. They sponsor everything having to do
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: with boys and girls soccer here on watkom preps. You
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: can find them online at ncalliancefc dot com. The show
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: sheet says, go over playoff brackets. All right, let's do
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: that U District one A girls tournament. Tyler, we had
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: already talked about pretty much everything as far as the
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: District one day tournament on last week's podcast. The only
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: thing we need to talk about here is November fifth.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: That was Knukzack Valley and Blaine playing in the final
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: of the Consolation bracket if he will. It's really only
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: two games, but the final there to see who moves
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: on for the crossover, and Nukzack Valley defeats Blaine a
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: three nothing.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah that was huge because you know, as you recall,
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: Knuksak had to play that playing game just to get
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: into this. So they win that one in a shootout,
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: and then you know, they they dropped the game to LC,
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: but they you know, they come back and they play
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: this one in a loser out game and they played great.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: I mean three nothing against Blaine. Blaine's Blaine's goalie is
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: really really good. The Knuksack Valley just you know, they
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: were coming in and peaking at just the right time.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: Gretchen Ellmandorf scored the first goal. She was followed up
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: by Chloe Mora who was hadn't scored on assist from
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: Jessica Kingma, and then Eldorf scored the third goal the
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: game on a penalty kick. So yeah, great, great win
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: by the Pioneers and kind of keeping that magical season
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: alive at that point.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: So that means Knuksack Valley moves on. Lynn and Christian.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: They also move on as the district champion. Both teams
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: headed down to Bellevue to Samamish High School on Saturday.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: This is for a winner to state loser out game,
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: which is a crossover with the District two. So University
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: Prep they were the number one seed in this, Nukzack
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: Valley they were the four technically, so University Prep defeats
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: Nukzack Valley five nothing. And then Bear Creek they were
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: the two, Lynnen Christian the three. So Bear Creek defeats
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: Lynn and Christian two to one, meaning no team from
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: Wakam County in the one A are headed onto the
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: state tournament.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's unfortunate. You falle had had a great
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: run here in the postseason. They really came on strong
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: at the end, you know, after Elena Dykster came back
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: from her injury and and Sarah Eisenheart such a good goaltender,
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: and they really played well and and it just kind
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: of it just kind of ran out on them, and
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: but a great great end of the season and they're
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: they're they're the youngest team in the in the in
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: the county, uh them and squalk them so that that
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: bodes well for them for the future. Lindy Christian. You know,
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: a heartbreaker there two to one. A great goal by
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: by Kayla Yun hit it right into the back, top
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: right corner of the net from about twenty five yards out,
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: probably the you know, I mean she led the conference
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: in scoring for the one A teams and that might
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: have been her best goal of the season. So uh
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: and she's and she did it on her seventeenth birthday
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: on Saturday. So a really cool deal there. Uh. But
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: unfortunately a loss, and like you said, that means no
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: teams from Walking County in the one A will be
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: going onto the state tournament. Yeah, which is you said unfortunate,
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: but it's the way of life. It is what it is.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, let's see here, Tyler, let's talk about two A
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: and the two A district tournament. We talked about everything
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: all the way up until the district championship game, which
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: saw Seahome and Linden playing at Civic Stadium and this
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: one Sea Home wins two to one. It goes to
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: penalty kicks and it ends up eight seven and penalty
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: kick styles. That's a long penalty kick process.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, what's a long one. I was watching on NFHS
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: and and I'm trying to think if that was the one,
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: Like there was one of the feeds that cut out
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: because it ran out of time. I don't think it
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: was that one though. But it was back and forth.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: You know. Sea Home scored first Kira Reeves, you know,
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: and it was about I don't know it was. It
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: was pretty early in, which is just kind of scause
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: Linden's had so many shutouts and all of a sudden
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: you give up a goal early and it's just kind
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: of eye opening, you know, a little bit. Uh, Linden
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: tied it about ten minutes later. Meg Clark kind of
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: tapped one in from short distance. There was you know,
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: it's so crazy when it gets really close in there
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: and and that you know, if you're standing in the
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: right place at the right time, all of a sudden
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: you can get this open look on a ricochet and
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: it's like boom there. You have to be quick with it,
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: and she was, and all of a sudden, it just
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: it was one one from there on out, Uh went
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: all the way and then and then see Home sophomore
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: Caitlyn Schroeder. She you know, she booted the ball in
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: and and and that was it. When she hit her
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: penalty shot that was the winner, and and upsets Lyndon
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: See Home with the district championship with this, you know this,
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: you know, a path straight to the state tournament. And
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: good for them because I wouldn't say they've had an
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: up and down season. I mean, they're very, very good
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: all the way through. But there were a few games
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: that that were that had that were ties that you're thinking, now,
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: they probably should have won that one, you know, but
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: many when they were on their game, they were really
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: really tough to beat. So they're going to be a
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: really really tough out in the state tournament.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and they will get a home game that we
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: will talk about here in just a few minutes.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: But Tyler, there is a little bit of chaos after this. Yeah.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: So last week we talked about Bellingham and Squalicum both
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: winning in the Constellation bracket. To move on, they would
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: face the losers of the semi finals, which was Burlington
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: Edison and Archbishop Murphy. Bellingham defeats Archbishop Murphy three nothing,
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: and Squalicum defeats Burlington Edison six to two.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was at that squalkam game for a little bit,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: you know, really really impressive game by them. Six goals,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, that's that's something. Siri Hogmin, the freshman,
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: scored the first goal of the game. Burlington Neison quickly
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: had one to answer. It made it one to one.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: Area Sebado kind of she been really hot in the playoffs,
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: just kept that streak alive. She gave them the two
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: to one lead, and then that was followed up by
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: three more first half goals. UH. Junior forward Kiara Voight,
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: who gave us an intro a little while back. She
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: kind of had a line drive shot that hit the
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: crossbar and went like up and down and it was
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: like did it go through? Did it not? And then
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: it was there was a late call by the official
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: that said yes it did, and there's a celebration, you know,
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's that was really really close, great great shot.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Junior David Simon's hit one from close range. Uh. And
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: then Ila Hawley scored off a corner kick and so
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: all of a sudden it's you know, it's five to
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: one going into half, and then Syria Hoguns scored her
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: second goal of the game in the second half to
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: help increase the lead. Storm win that one. Bellingham just
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: you know, needing to stay alive as well. Ivy Newle,
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: their leading scorer, a senior she supported. She scored a
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: pair of goals and kind of keep them alive there.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: And then senior Gracy goren Uh scored a goal as
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: well to make it the third goal of the game.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: And and and our Mirischim Murphy was a pretty good
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: team eliminated there.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: Now because those two teams won, that meant they had
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: to play each other on Thursday. That game was at
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: Civic Stadium and Bellingham they come away with a two
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: zero win over Squalicum.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this one was crazy because I was at there
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: was a doubleheader for volleyball out of Meridian High School
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: and both games included two Walking County teams, so there
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: were four teams here where it was loser and you're
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: done for the season. So this was important stuff. And
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: I thought, Okay, I'll catch all of the first one.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: I'll catch a big chunk of the second one. But
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: if I leave in time, I can catch the end
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: of this soccer game. Because it's win or win, continue
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: to go lose and you're done. And those are both
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: walking county teams. So I hop you know, I get
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: in the car and I'm putting on an NFHS and
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: I and with you know, I can't see real well,
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: and I thought that the score said two to two,
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: and so I'm like, oh man, this is gonna go
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: to pendle, this is gonna go to overtime, this is like,
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: this could go to a shootout. I've got time, I
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: can get there. I drive all the way out there,
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: and when I get there, it's over and it says
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: too nothing on the scoreboard. And it's like, oh my goodness.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: If I would have saw that it was too nothing
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: with ten minutes to go, I would have just drove home.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: But I go all the way out there. Bellingham, you know,
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: they eliminated Squalkum. Ruby Brown scored a first goal of
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: the game Belot halfway through the first half, and Sophia
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: Dione did the same thing kind of halfway through the
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: second half. You know, Squalkum really really young team, good
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: good team, really good freshman on that team only one senior,
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: I believe, Hannah Bates, and and their season came to
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: an end. But that's a team on the rise. So
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: many good local girls soccer teams. It's unbelievable my first
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: year covering them fully in quite a while, I kind
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: of I did a handful of games when I first
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: started walking preps, you know, twenty eighteen or so. But
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: I was just kind of doing games sporadically here and
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: there whenever I could. I wasn't fully like Duke going
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: old nuts so like I am now so, but that
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: was that was a game that it was too bad
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: that I missed. And I was really disappointed because I
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: wasn't gonna be able to get a shot a picture.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: And then I get home and there's an email from
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: Dennis Karens, who's an amazing photographer locally, and he's like, hey,
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: I got a picture. If you want to use it,
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: you know, you know, just give me credit. And I
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: was like, oh, bless your heart, that was perfect. I
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: had no idea he was going to be there, you know.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: And and so he's just such an awesome guy, and
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: he's so helpful with things like that. He takes pictures
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: for the Tribune, but if he's not working for the Tribune,
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: he's always glad to help me out, which is great.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: He's just a wonderful human being and takes you know,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: way better pictures than I do, So that was great.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: He did get a great shot. Bellingham wins that one
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: to keep their season alive. Now they keep their season alive.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: And Tyler, this is something you and I talked about
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: because they lost that for first game on Halloween to
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: Burlington Edison. They were gonna have to win four straight
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: just to get to the state tournament. Now Seahome they
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: moved in with their win over Linden. Linden, they moved
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: down to this game Bellingham London on Saturday at Civic Stadium,
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: the number one seed versus the number two seed. Only
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: one team's going to state, and pretty much nobody decided
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: they wanted to score, so they went all the way
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: to penalty kicks where Bellingham comes out on top six
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: ' five.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this was crazy, and you know it's I don't
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: know if you'd ask the Bellingham players, you know, if
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: they were probably out there watching the district title game
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: between Linden and Seahome, and I'm wondering if they were
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: rooting for Lindon thinking, Okay, if we get a shot,
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: we could play Seahome because Linden's tough, and I don't
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: know how if you gave him truth seer them if
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: they would say, you know, yeah I want them to play,
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: I would, you know, but they get Lynden and I
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: and I went out there. This was the beginning of
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: my crazy Saturday where I went to five different games.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: I started at Civic and I ended in Civic and
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: I go out there and it was it was intense
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: because now you're talking it's not winning, you stay alive.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: It's winner to state loser, and you're done. And these
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: are two amazing teams. I was out at Bellingham High
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: School like a month and a half ago when these
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: two teams played each other, and there was it was
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: crazy then. I mean, it was a lot of talk.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: They were both undefeated at the time. You know, Bellingham
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: had like, I don't think they'd given up a goal
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: to that point at that time. Remember we were always
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: talk about, yeah, they still haven't given up a goal
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: this season, and Linden was scoring a ton of goals.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: So it was kind of the you know, it was
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: kind of the irresistible force meeting the immovable object, right is,
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: who's going to give up here? And and Linden won
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: that one. I can't remember what the exact score was.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: I might have been two or three zero. But but
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: this one was just back and forth and and you
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: know a lot of great defense and unbelievable and then yeah,
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: and and then I had to leave because I had
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: to go to another winter you know, winner to state
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: loser out game for volleyball, and I'm watching on NFHS
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: and I got to head out to the Linden Christian
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: game soon for football, and I mean it was just crazy,
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: and but I kept I kept watching it, kept watching it,
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: and I saw I was going to shootout, so I'm like,
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: oh my goodness, this is this is crazy. And it
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: was just back and forth and back and forth, and
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: they were just making every single one. And then when
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: Linden didn't hit one, it came down to Ruby Brown,
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: the senior who had that big shot you know, to
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: start things out against Squalicum. She hits hers. It sends
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: the BayHawks to the two way state tournament. There were
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: parents is messaging me just like this is crazy. I
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: can't believe we did this. This is awesome, and thank
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: you for the coverage. And I mean, it was just
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: they were so elated and Linden, I mean, what an
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: amazing year they had where they did not lose a
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: game in regulation all year, they were top ranked, you know,
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: Evelyn Saldivar with you know, twenty nine goals on the year.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's just it. What an amazing team and
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: it you know, again, it speaks to how much how
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: talented it is in this area. Yeah, only two teams
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: get to go on. But and we were talking about that,
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: like with all these teams, these are all really really
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: good teams. And then you can't forget about Squalkam, you
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: can't forget about Archbishop. Like there's five legit state caliber teams,
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: you're only two get to go on. And and you know,
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: I kind of like how they did it as far
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: as even if you you know, even if you lose early,
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: you still have a chance later with only two teams
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: going on. Usually you see that with three, but with two,
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: you know, you got to keep winning and you got
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: to face that whoever loses the championship game. And man,
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: it was just an unbelievable run that Bellingham went on.
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's pretty wild. And when you look at it, Tyler,
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: because see, Home's only two losses on the year to
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: Bellingham and Bellevue.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they all that week that first game, yeah.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, one nothing to Bellevue and you know, Bellevue they're
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: a decent team. They finished ten to three and three.
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: But it's not like they were, you know, undefeated or anything.
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: But yeah, Lynden really they're only I guess you'd say
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: what they're kryptonite in a way. It was was Sea Home.
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: I mean they they tied three three, yeah, and then
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: lost obviously two to one.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: But other than that, I mean they really ran rough
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: shot through pretty much everybody. I mean for the most part.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: You know, they had some close ones, some two nothing
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: games and a one nothing game to Mount Vernon. But
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: I mean other than that, I mean a lot of
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: six nothing, seven nothing, you know, eleven.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh yeah. They were they were they were
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: the team. They were the team to be Like. It
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: was like, I think a lot of people thought, Okay,
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: it'll be Lynden and one of the city schools. You know,
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: those are going to be the two that are going
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: to go and when and when Linden. When Seahome beat
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: Lynden in the conference championship game, it was like, Okay, well,
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: then Linden will be able to sit and rest and
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: then beat whoever on Saturday. And then Belliam just went
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: on that run and it's crazy, it was unbelievable. Yeah.
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: So Bellingham, just to kind of put it into perspective here,
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: they lose on Thursday two weeks ago or two thursdays ago.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: Then they yeah, then they win on Saturday, they have
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: Sunday and Monday off, they win Tuesday, they win Thursday,
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: they win Saturday, and in the process do not give
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: up a goal. I mean, they won all three games
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: this last week. They won three nil, two nil, one
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: nil technically, so I mean, belie, Yeah, they are just
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: they are hot. Now that being said. Tyler State Tournament,
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: see Home they end up with the sixth seed. Bellingham
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: they end up as the four seed, which is just
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: always funny when you look at things, right, because yeah,
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: one of them's a district champion, one of them is not.
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: But then again, they didn't play each other in the
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: district tournament, so yes, there is a little something to
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: be said there. But the good thing is they are
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: on opposite sides of the bracket, so they could very
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: easily meet in the championship against each other that being said,
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: on the thirteenth, Wednesday, the thirteenth, they will play a
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: double header at Civic Stadium. The first one will be
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: a four pm game between Bellingham and Pullman. Talk about
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: that's a heck of a drive, let me.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: Tell you that. And a four pm game.
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: I mean, now that will put them home at a
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: somewhat decent time, if you will, because I mean, let's
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: just say they're ated there by six o'clock. That's like
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: a six hour drive. I mean it might even be
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: more than that.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: I guess we should pull up Google Maps here just
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: because I am honestly intrigued at this point, Pullman, Washington.
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: Let's see here from Bellingham. Let's see how long it
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: is right now? Okay, this is eleven sixteen pm on
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: Sunday night, right now, Bellingham to Pullman. It says it
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: will take you five hours and fifty four minutes.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know a school bus is going to
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: take longer than that. Yeah.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: And I don't know if they'd be driving a bus
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: or if they'd be taking maybe a couple of vans.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: True. Yeah, either way.
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: You're talking at least six hours because you're gonna stop,
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: You're gonna have to fuel up at some point. I mean,
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: if you're driving a bus, maybe you don't have to
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: fuel up. I don't know, but yeah, wow. I mean
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: that is a heck of a drive. So even if
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: they're out of there at six o'clock, they're not getting
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: home until after midnight. But at least at that point
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: they could they could, you know, go to school the
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: next day.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So that is a four pm game, the six
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: pm game right after it, well it says six pm,
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: but honestly it's right after it. I mean it could
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: go to penalty kicks and go a little long. Basically,
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: it'll probably be I don't know, what do you think
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: forty minutes something like that afterwards. Yeah, Ellensburg the eleven seed.
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: They are coming to town to take on Sea Home.
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: That's the six pm game at Civic Stadium. I mean, Tyler,
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: this is the point of the year here with soccer
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: where you and I both go. We don't know anything
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: about Holman or Ellensburg other than I can give you
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: places to get a burger in both cities.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: I mean that's all it.
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: I can tell you to go to the tav or
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: to Campus Burger and tell you go to the koug.
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: Other than that, couldn't tell you anything, right, But yeah,
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: so double header out there on Wednesday at Civic Stadium, Tyler,
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: I imagine you're probably gonna be out there.
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean I'm leaving for Yakama on Thursday, so
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: Wednesday night I will be available to go check that out.
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: I'm sure you and I will record later that night.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: But yeah, I'll definitely be there. It's gonna be crazy.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: I didn't even think about that. Yeah, although we don't
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: have we don't have any football anymore. Well, we do
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: have football, but not sub varsity. Yeah, we don't have
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: any no more. Tyler.
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: I love coaching sophomore football. I can't even begin to
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: tell you how happy I am to have a Monday
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: to myself. Yeah, well, we still have practice, but at
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: least I'll be home at a at a regular time.
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: But you and I do gota. Oh no, you and
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: I can record but four because there's no uh no
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: school tomorrow.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: So that is the playoff brackets, Tyler. I mean, I
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: guess we do got to update the goal leaders here.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: I got a feeling even if the second place or
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: the second place at the moment, even if she goes nuts,
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: there's no way she's catching Evelyn Saldivar.
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that'd be. That'd be pretty tough. You know, Salvovar
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: with twenty nine goals on the season, and you got
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: to think about it. The max amount of games that
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: can be played now for Bellingham or Sione players is four, right,
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: So you know Ivy Newell in second place with sixteen
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: thirteen goals behind with four games to go against the
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: best competition in the state. Yeah, that'd be that'd be
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: pretty tough. Yeah.
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: I mean maybe maybe the first round you could, you know,
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: maybe she could put in a good chunk, but once
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: he hit the quarterfinals, it's it's pretty tough going for there.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. And Bellingham is, oh excuse me, they're very very
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: like they really spread it out. They have a lot
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: of players with a lot of goals and run in
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: the top ten. Yeah right, and so it's and then
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: Seeholm has four in the top ten. Right, Yeah, so
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: they're very very you know, they, like I said, they
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: really really spread it out and just have always been
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: that way. So yeah, so Iby Nuwell with sixteen. Siria
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: Hoagland from Squalokum, there are season is over she's just
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: a freshman with fifteen. Kaylie Yun her season came to
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: an end. From Lyndy. Christian has twelve. She's a junior.
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: You'll see Heregren again next year. Ella Morro from Bellingham
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: the senior. She has eleven. She's still playing, as well
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: as a bushel of Seahing players here, Vivian Moss with ten,
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: Kylie Ifsovic with nine, Woodworth with nine, Kira Reeves with
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: nine again. They're all still playing, as is Gracie Gourin
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: from Bellingham with nine. She's really shot up the list recently.
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: And Meg Clark her season came to an end. She
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: also has nine for Linden. So that is your updated
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: n see Alliance FC goal leaders.
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: That is it for girls soccer. As Tyler mentioned Ncalliance
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: FC dot com. Uh, North County Alliance they sponsor everything
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: happen to do with boys and girls soccer. Uh, let's
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: move on and talk about girls swim and dive. Tyler
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: and uh, this was the district championships. Where was this act?
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: Do you know? This was at the Fidalgo Pool in Anacordas.
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: As soon as you said Fidalgo, I knew exactly where
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: it was gonna be oh nice, fidalgo Obay. I have
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: spent quite a bit of time up there in Anacordas.
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: Is that named for like a girl that like anacort has?
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: Probably? I mean I never thought about it, but it
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: just it does make some sense, right, Yeah, yeah, it
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: probably is. I mean, I'm no geography major.
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: But anyway, Tyler, Uh, so we're gonna we're gonna mention
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: all of the district champions except for two diving and
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: the one hundred meters backstroke. Those were out of the county,
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: so uh to heck with them. Uh, let's talk about
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: all of the other district champions, Tyler, And we'll start
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: with the two hundred medley relay.
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's the same team that had that the best
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: time all year and they had their first time swimming
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: under two minutes. Addie Hayes, Peyton Accord, Grace Sorenson and
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: June Wilson of Bellingham.
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: How about the two hundred freestyle.
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: Yes, the name we've become familiar with, Grace Sorenson from Bellingham.
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: One minute fifty four point seconds.
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, not to play spoiler alert here, but I'm gonna
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: hear her name a couple of more times. Before it's
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: all said, two hundred individual medley, that's.
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: The Blaine superstar. Hayley Ferrell two minutes, seventeen point nine
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: eight seconds.
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: You think she's related to the to the girl from
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: from Major League. It was not the two hundred individual medley.
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: It's not what she swam in the Olympics, or she
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: was an alternate in.
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: The alternate alternate on the eighty Olympic team. Yeah, oh callback,
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: I don't worry. Nobody's listening anyway. Anyway, I have no
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: idea where we're at here.
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: Uh, fifty freestyle Tyler, Yes, Jasmine Garcia from Bellingham, twenty
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: six point.
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: Three to three, one hundred butterfly once again, Gray Sorenson
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: of Bellingham, fifty six point one four seconds, one hundred
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: freestyle again another with she had the fifty freestyle. Now
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: with thee hundred freestyle. Jasmin Garcia from Bellingham fifty eight
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: point two to one, the long one, the five hundred freestyle. Yeah,
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: this is always the most impressive one. Hayley Ferrell from Blaine,
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: five minutes, twenty four seconds.
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: I can't think you of anything that I can do
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: for five minutes and twenty four seconds straight. And she's
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: just out there swimming.
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Crazy.
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: How about the two hundred freestyle relay?
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, another Bellingham team here, Jasmine Garcia, Anacoholland, Addie Hayes
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: and June Wilson and Bellingham. One minute forty nine point
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: three seven seconds.
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: So two hundred freestyle. Does that mean they each do fifty? Yeah,
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: so they each just go. So you gotta put like
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: one or two on one side, one on the other
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: or two on two on the other. But then one
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: of them dives in right right, yep, to start it all.
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: And then all right, let's talk one hundred breaststroke.
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Peyton Accord from Bellingham. You saw her on the
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: relay team earlier, and she's from Bellingham. One a minute,
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: fourteen point eight three seconds.
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: And then okay, so then the four hundred freestyle, that's
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: a hundred. That's that's what a down and back every person, Yes, gotcha.
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: And this is the exciting one that ends the ends
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: the night, always really fun. Jasmine Garcia, Grace Sorenson, Peyton Accord,
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: and anacoh Holland, all names that you've heard from Bellingham.
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: Three minutes fifty three point one to three seconds.
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: That's the like the one that Michael Phelps like the
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: I can't remember the guy's name, Jason something or whatever.
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: He like dove in for the US and then had
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: to overcome like a I think it was the French
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: team had to overcome and he and he got it
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: by like a point zero zero one or something like
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: right at the end.
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: It was crazy. Yeah.
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: Now that being said, Tyler, team champions go to the
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: Bellingham BayHawks.
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's kind of what we expected just looking
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: at how things have been going all year and just
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: a really really good team with I mean up and
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: down they had. They have it all. So we'll see
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: what kind of showing they can put forth at the State.
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: That's going to be pretty awesome. That is it for
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: girls swim and dive. Let's move on and talk about volleyball.
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• 44:05
  Speaker 1: this is another one look at playoff brackets. So what
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: are we gonna do. We're gonna go ahead and look
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: at the playoff brackets playoffs. We will start with the
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: one A volleyball tournament. This is the district tournament Linden.
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: So we already talked about kind of the first two rounds,
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: if you will. One of them was just a play
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: in round between Blaine and Mount Baker where Blaine beat
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: Baker and then Blaine moved on and lost to Meridian
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: and Nooksack Valley lost to Lyndon Christian, setting up a
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: league championship that was on Tuesday, I believe, right, Yep, yep,
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: that was on Tuesday at Meridian, Lynn and Christian. They
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: come away with a three nothing victory over the Trojans. Yeah,
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: this one was a little surprising, to be honest. Elsie
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: won the first one, the first set, I should say,
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: twenty eight to twenty six, so it goes into those
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: extras and sometimes if you win that, especially early, it
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: can to deflate the other team a little bit. And
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: but I don't think it really deflated Meridian, but it
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: really elevated the Links and then they came out and
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: won the next one twenty five eighteen. And Meridian fought
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: hard in that third one, but they lost twenty five
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: to twenty three, and Lindy Christian takes the district championship there.
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: You know, Edda DeYoung was was one of the top,
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: you know players up front. She's a junior. Ella Fritz
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: had thirty one assists and she just there was a
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: lot of players that had you know, seven kills or more.
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: She just kind of kept dishing it to everybody and
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: kind of keeping it all, keeping it all strong there.
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: And Linny Christian's you know, their strength is their defensive front.
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: They had thirteen blocks in those in that match. I
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: mean that's incredible. And and Meridian there's not really a
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: whole on Meridians team, but the only thing I would
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: say is they just don't have like those six feet players.
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: Those six foot players. They've got great athletic players that
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: can jump out of the gym, but they don't have
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: this six players. So when you're used to getting a
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: lot of kills and you go up against that wall
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: that Linden Christian can present, that's really really tough. And
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: Lyndon Christian used it to their advantage and came out
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: with the win. There.
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: Now, a couple hours before that, Nuksack Valley and Blaine
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: played in a loser out game. The winner would move
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: on to Thursday. Yep, and this one went to Knoksack
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: Valley three nothing over Blaine.
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it didn't it didn't come easy. I mean
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: they had to win the first one twenty six, twenty four,
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: then they had to win twenty five to twenty two,
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: and then twenty five to twenty. And so really proud
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: of what the Border Rights did this year because they
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: they dealt with a lot of different things. They had
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: a lot of different lineups, a lot of different players played,
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: They brought up players from JV and they just always
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: fought really hard. They took a lot of sets against
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: teams that were better than them. You know, they took
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: a set from Ferndale. They you know, they took some
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: sets from some really good teams and but they just
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: kind of ran out of gas here at the end.
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: The Pioneers. The Pioneers are you know, Peyton Peyton Bartell
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: is one of the better setters in the league. And
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: then she's got those she's got those those twin towers,
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: I mean six foot two, Elizabeth Delang six foot one,
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: Grace d Hoague, and they are both power players and
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: and so they're really really strong with you know, up
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: front at the net. You know, they're they're you know,
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: they're not as strong in the back court, but they're
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: just they're really young. There's a lot of inexperience there, uh,
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: coming into the season, especially, But next year they don't
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: they don't have a senior on the team. So next
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: year they're gonna bring everyone back, and I think they're
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: gonna be they're much stronger this year. They're really getting
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: used to getting getting to know each other. But another
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: good strong showing by the Pioneers here. You know, Elizabeth
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: Delang had twelve kills in that one. Yeah, just you know,
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: a great season for Blaine. Uh, their season comes to
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: an end, the Pioneers stay alive.
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Nook Sac Valley looks like one of those teams
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: that could be making a serious move next year.
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: Yes, they're gonna have it take a big, big jump. Yeah. Absolutely. Uh.
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: Now with the win, Nuksack Valley or excuse me, uh yeah, yeah,
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: Nuksack Valley moves on to take on Meridian.
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: Meridian gets a three to one win over that one
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: to move on to the District one to crossover.
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this was This was a really intriguing matchup. And
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: this was one of those This is one of those
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: doubleheaders that was talking about. This was the back end
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: game where I was I had to stay as long
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: as I could before I could leave and go to
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: the soccer game with it that I missed the end
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: of yeah. Uh. And the crazy thing about this one
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: was this has just been a great rivalry these these
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: two teams. Meridian is the better team, but Nuksack got
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: them earlier in the year in that same gym in
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: five sets, and that was an intense match and I
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: was there for that one, so I thought, man, maybe
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: they just kind of have their number. And again we
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: talked about, you know, Meridian the one thing that they
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: might be lacking is they don't have those six foot
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: players and Nukzack Valley, you know, they're their two best
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: players are both six foot one six foot two, so
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: you kind of if you can lean on that and
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: use that as an advantage, then that's how that can happen.
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: And and you know, I thought this is gonna be
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: really good. And Meridian won the first set twenty five nineteen.
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: Knuksack Valley came back and win twenty five eighteen, and that,
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: you know, kind of sets it up for the for
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: the last ones, and Meridian came out twenty five to
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: twenty one and twenty five to twenty three. So it
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: was they they kind of squeaked by them a little bit,
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: but uh, tough to see Nuzack Valley in their season
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: that way. You know, they went to state last year.
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: This is a team with a lot of new players.
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: I mean, Peyton Bartle returned, you know, Grace Dhogue returned,
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: Elizabeth Delang returned, but for the you know, for the
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: most part, those were kind of the main returners and
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: everyone else is pretty new. So so and with a
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: new coach, Holly Saint Marie, awesome coach, Like you said,
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: really look for them on the upswing next year. But Meridian,
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: with the win there, stayed alive to go over to
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: the Crossover and keep their season going. Yeah.
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: So Lynn and Christian they go in as the number
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: one out of the district one a over to the crossover.
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: Meridian they go in as the two Meridian. They take
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: on east Side Prep both games in the in this
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: Saturday doubleheader, taking park at Cedar Park Christian taking part
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: taking I don't even know what I'm trying to say
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: there at Cedar Park Christian just down the street from
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: my house, Tyler. As a matter of fact, it's about
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: halfway between me and Bothel High School and I do
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: drive by quite often. But yeah, Meridian. In the first
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: game three PM, they get a three nothing win over
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: east Side Prep. And then Lynn and Christian they get
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: a three nothing win over Granted Falls in the five
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: PM game.
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this was you know, it was crazy because I
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: was out at the Civic Stadium when these games were
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: going on, and it kind of hit me like, oh, yeah,
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: they're playing right now. So I was able to fire
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: up NFHS on my phone and watch these east Side
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: Prep never heard of them I didn't even know that
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: was a school. I didn't know anything about them. Had
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: to find a logo, took care of that for the scoreboard,
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: and I'm getting pretty good at I don't have to
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: bug you anymore for the most part. For the most part.
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: Sometimes I have to bug you. But yeah, so but Meridian,
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: you know, I was so worried because I booked my
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: trip to state over a month ago and and I'm like, Okay,
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: one A and two are there. We got some good teams.
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: I should be fine. And I was like, cause I
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: was looking at I was thinking about last year's tournament,
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: and I was like last year's district tournaments, and I thought, Okay,
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: I know they get two from the one A and
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: two from the two A, and you know, the chances
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: are good that we're gonna get some walking county teams there.
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: All of a sudden, someone tells me, oh, yeah, on
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: the one A the two teams that come out, I
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: have to play a crossover. And I was like, what.
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: I had no idea because that wasn't the case last year.
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: So I thought, oh my goodness. And the two a's
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: got some really strong teams from out of the county,
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: like am I gonna are there not going to be
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: any teams. So I was kind of on edge watching
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: these ones because I need at least one of them
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: to win here for me to keep my room and
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: kind of go down and do this. But Meridian took
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: care of business pretty easily, to be honest, twenty five thirteen,
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: twenty five to ten, twenty five thirteen, And that's what
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: I was told, is that they're going to take on
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: the four and five from down there and it should
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: not be too much of a hassle. So so yeah,
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: Meridian looked looked great. Eaton Bernardi, Grace Wells, Gracie Papp,
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: Melanie Short, I mean, you know, Rylan Bernardi. They all
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: just did their thing, took care of business. So Meridian
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: moves on to go to State. Lindy Christian kind of
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: did the same thing. I watched that as well. They
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: just use their size to their advantage like they usually do.
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: Ali Wright was huge, ten kills, two and a half
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: blocks edit to Young had another ten kills. Ella Fritz
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: with thirty eight assists, ten digs, three kills. I mean,
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: it was a big time team effort. When you watch
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: the links, it's just impressive to see you know, the
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: height that they have, that's just kind of always been
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: their their staple. I remember not too long ago. I
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: think it might have been the first year they ever
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: seeded the volleyball tournament, or one of the first years
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: they were the sixteenth seed and they went there and
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: they got all the way the state championship game. So,
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: I mean, you just never know when it comes down
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: to that, and we'll just have to wait and see.
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: But congratulations to both one A teams and thank you
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: from the bottom of my heart for winning. So I
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: can go cover you at the state tournament. I'm really
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: excited about it. Yeah, Tyler.
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: By the way, east Side Prep, it's actually really close
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: to my house. They have two hundred and fifty five
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: students is how many they have total, which if I
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: showed you the picture of the office park they're in,
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: you'd go, where do they all go? Because it doesn't
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: even look like it hold two hundred and fifty five.
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: Let's talk about the state tournament, Tyler. You will be
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: over there. They both teams start on the fifteenth, which
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: is up fright Friday.
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so both teams start Friday and Meridian their early
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: morning or early morning to some of us. Ten forty
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: five am they will take on the Bear Creek School,
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: another school that's actually pretty close to me, and then
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: Lynnen Christian. They don't play until two thirty pm. They
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: will take on Stevenson, which is really far away from me.
• 54:23
  Speaker 2: That's all the way down by the Dallas down along
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: the river. Basically Oregon is where those girls are coming round.
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: I've stayed there. Yeah, yeah, Stevenson is actually probably closer
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: to Yakama than Lennon Christian. Actually I'm sure it is.
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I bet it is, because it's actually probably
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: actually not all that long of a drive you drive
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: up what is that like, White Swan kind of in
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: that area. I can't even remember. But yeah, those two
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: teams they will play. I mean they're gonna play at
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: least two games. They could play a couple of more. So, yes,
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: Tyler will be over there. He will have all the
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: coverage that you will need for that. That is the
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: one A volleyball state tournament. Tyler, we need to talk
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: about the two A volleyball district tournament. A little bit
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: of chaos in this one too, if you will. Last
• 55:11
  Speaker 2: week we mentioned that Lynden defeated Anna chordis, Squalcumb lost
• 55:16
  Speaker 2: to Burlington Edison, Seahome defeated Lakewood, and then in a
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: game that doesn't have anybody from Wakam County, Archbishop Murphy
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: defeated Marysville Pilchuck to set up the semi finals at
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: Meridi in High School. Burlington Edison defeats Lynden three nothing,
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: and Archbishop Murphy they defeat Sea Home three nothing.
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and on the same day, you know, Squalcum lost
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: as well, and so it was just kind of a
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: it was kind of a negative scoreboard that. Yeah, actually
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: it was three nothing, three nothing and three nothing. Yeah.
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: That that Monday night. It was not fun to make
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: that scoreboard. You know, all three Walking County teams got
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: shut out and I was there to watch a big
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: chunk of Seahome Archbishop Murphy. And what really impressed me
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: with Archbishop Murphy is their serve game. I Mean, they
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: were just it seems like they just could not get
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: a good shot against their serve, Like they just couldn't
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: get a natural you know, bump to lead it going
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: back the other way, and it was it was tough
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: for See Home to get their offense going. Now, Hayden
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: Neva domskim me she had. She did great. She had
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: fourteen kills and eight digs and a four to eighty
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: hitting percentage. I mean she was she was on her game,
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: but it was just hard to get in a flow.
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: And so much of volleyball is about rhythm and runs
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: and stuff like that, and it just it just never
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: happened for Sea Home. So you know, they lost that
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: semifinal game, Linden losing to Burlington. I mean, Burlington is
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: so they're just loaded. I mean they're so good. They
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: got fourth in state last year, Linden got third. That
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: was a third fourth game that I covered last year
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: in the sun Dome, and it was one of those
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: where you know, looked at Linden and you go, okay,
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: you got a lot of seniors of them are going
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: to go play college volleyball. And you looked at Burlington
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: you said, oh, they don't even have any seniors. This
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: is scary. So you kind of knew Burlington is gonna
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: be great this year. They are, there's no doubt about that.
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: But that match against Lyndon was as close as it
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: can get. All three sets were by two points. I mean,
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: that's as close as you can get you can't get
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: any closer than that. So even though it was three zero,
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: Linden made a heck of a game out of it
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: and and kept you know, they were so close in
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: all of them, and it was just It's one of
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: those where you go back to Major League where lou
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: brown sits there and goes, someday, we're going to figure
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: out how to beat those guys, and that's just and
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: that's just, you know, it's just one of those things
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: where you know, and we'll see and I don't know
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: Burlington's roster that well this year. I don't know how
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: many seniors they have. I don't know what they got
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: coming back next year, but Linden was just the one
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: senior with Cameron Herman, which is a really good player,
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: especially on the defensive side. But a lot of their
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: talent is coming back, so you know, we'll see Linda
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: come back. But they both get knocked out in the
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: semi finals. Squalkum loses three zero to Anti Chordus and
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: Accorda is very very aggressive team. They don't suit up
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: a lot of players like nine maybe, but they're but
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: they're high flyers and they're really tall, and and they
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: knocked out the storm the matt the season ends for
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: the squalka storm.
• 58:17
  Speaker 2: Just looking at the roster here Tyler for Burlington Edison. Yeah,
• 58:22
  Speaker 2: number two and number three are seniors. Everybody else is
• 58:25
  Speaker 2: coming back next year. Oh boy, okay, now there you go.
• 58:28
  Speaker 2: Number three is the tallest one in the picture, and
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: it's not even close, like she's a solid two damn,
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: just taller than everybody else. And then number two is
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: right next to her. So a couple of couple of
• 58:39
  Speaker 2: tall girls. Although number ten, who is oh no, she's
• 58:45
  Speaker 2: on here, she's just out of order. Uh somehow it
• 58:48
  Speaker 2: goes one, ten, two, three, eight. But she's also very
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: tall and she's right next to her as well. So
• 58:55
  Speaker 2: it looks like Burlington Edison could be pretty good again
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: next year. Yeah, so go moving on to talk about well,
• 59:04
  Speaker 2: I guess we got to mention that the two A
• 59:07
  Speaker 2: District Tournament championship, Barlington Edison did defeat Archbishop Murphy. Uh
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: that was on November sixth. Yeah, Now, going back a day.
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: By the way, Wednesday, that Wednesday night was fantastic because
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: there was no walking County sports that night. Oh so
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: did you actually get a maybe a little rest? I did?
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: I wrest a little bit. It was fantastic.
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: So that was Wednesday, but going back to Tuesday because
• 59:36
  Speaker 2: they did have to have some games on Tuesday. Uh,
• 59:39
  Speaker 2: these are loser out games. So seem they defeat Anacortus
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: three nothing, and Linden they defeat Lakewood three nothing.
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and this was, you know, to keep their season
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: alive at this point. So two really good teams Anacurtis
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: and Lakewood. I've seen plenty of times during the year.
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: I actually talked to the Lakewood head coach for a
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: while when I saw them against Meridian. She stopped me
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: and she goes, hey, are you the walking preps guys? Yeah,
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: And uh, you know, she's just she's like, you know
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: a lot of times I talk to a coaches from
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: outside the county, they're always just like, man, I wish
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: we had someone like you done here, and you know,
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: and we had a we had a good you know,
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: a good, really good talk. And that's a really good
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: program in the Lakewood program. And and Anichordus, like I said,
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: it was really good. But Sea Home and Lindon doing
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: what they needed to do to stay alive seem took
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: care of Van Accordas pretty well. Twenty five, seventeen, twenty five, sixteen,
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: and then twenty five eleven. I mean, sometimes you get
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: a little a little powerful like that, and then you're
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: down and if you lose, you're done, and you're down
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: two sets already, and it's just hard to come back
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: from that. And it look sounds like they just, you know,
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: not to say that they folded or anything, but you
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: lose twenty five to eleven, you know, you get a
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: little demoralized and then that's it. So Seeom stays alive.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: There kind of the same thing in Lindon Lakewood's twenty
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: five to ten. In the first one, lake Wood comes
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: back in the second one twenty five to twenty two.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: Lennon takes care of business twenty five twenty four finleypartre
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: She went off eighteen kills, twenty one digs, three aces.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: You know, watching her serve, she's she's the only one
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: to walk in county that I see. Does that college
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: serve where she throws it way up in the air
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: and every time she hits it, it's like, how does
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: she time it right? How does she get that down
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: with it? Spin on it just right? And uh, And
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: she's just a sophomore and definitely looking at a D
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: one future in basketball. So just a tremendous overall athlete, Tyler.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 2: You ever, like if somebody says to you, like, oh,
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 2: are you the walk them Preps guy? Like, and I'm
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 2: sure you're wearing a bright orange walk them preps? You
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 2: know whatever, and and a hat, do you ever just
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 2: go Nope, just a huge fan and keep walking.
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: I should do that. I mean, you should do.
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 2: It sometimes and then and then turn around be like,
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: just kidding, I am the guy.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, well I'm not that witty, but yeah, that
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: would be that'd be kind of fun to do, but
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: it would be really funny. It's starting to happen and
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: a lot more where parents are coming out and introducing
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: themselves and they're just excited. And so I'm glad that
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: the words are it's spreading and stuff like that, and
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: and and walking Preps is actually becoming a thing. And
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: that was that was the whole thing. Like people ask
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: how come you're not getting sponsors like when I first started,
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: and I said, because nobody knows what walking preps is.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: And I always compared it to Sports Illustrated. Not I
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: don't mean I'm not as big as Sports Illustrated. Don't
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: don't get me wrong what they are now, but yeah,
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: go ahead. Yeah, but I wanted it to buy everyone knows,
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: everyone's heard of Sports Illustrated, you know, around the country,
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: and I wanted it to be like that in Walkham County.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: I wanted it to be where people, you know, when
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: you say walk and Preps, they know what it is,
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: like automatically. I wanted to wait until I got to
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: that point before I start looking for creating an income
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: and getting sponsors and stuff, because you know, I wanted
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: to prove that I'm here for the long haul and
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: I'm willing to do it for nothing because I love it.
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: And then when they start seeing that and noticing that,
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: and then doing more sports and covering more sports, and
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: you know, you and I doing the podcast covering more
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: sports not just football year round, and it just kind
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: of builds it up and so it's become a pretty
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: good thing. Yeah.
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 2: Really, getting all those sponsors just kind of like forced
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 2: our hand, if you will, kind of like yeah, kind
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 2: of like made us have to do it at one point.
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: Sure, Tyler, let's see here. You know what you need
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: to do.
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 2: You need to get Joe Consensus a shirt that says
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 2: I'm not watcom preps, and then on the back it
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 2: can be an arrow pointing to you and it says
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 2: I'm with watcom Preps.
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: But yeah, but I agree, Yeah, and I agree.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 2: So Seahome defeats Ana Chordus, Linden defeats Lakewood. That sets
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 2: up a game between Seahome and Linden that was on
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 2: Thursday at Meridian High School and Sea Home a little
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 2: bit of upset, if you will. They defeat Linden three
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 2: to one.
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this was one I was super excited to go
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: see because I went to the match earlier in the
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: year that was out at Linden. I actually took Joe
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: Consensus to that match and that one was three to one,
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: and I remember it was one to one at one point,
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: and that third set really could have gone either way.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: There were some close calls, there was some disputed calls,
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: let's just say, and Linden took that third set to
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: get a two one advantage and then they were able
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: to roll to victory. I was really curious to see
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: how this one was going to go. These are two
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: amazing teams, you know, and it was like, okay, the
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: winner gets archbishop, who's really good, but that's your last shot, right,
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: And I went there and I knew that, you know,
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: you know, seehom hadn't beat Linden since like twenty sixteen. Wow,
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: and so it was you know, big, big time match. Uh.
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: Seem won the first one twenty five twenty one Linden.
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: They really roared back and were strong twenty five to
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: fifteen in the second and I kind of thought, Okay,
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: here we go. This is where Lindon loses the first one,
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: and then they just go on their role here and
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: there were a lot I think Linden was up probably
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: like I don't know twenty one sixteen or something like that.
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: In the third one, I thought, okay, here it goes.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: And then and then see them went on a kind
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: of a they kind of went on a run there
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: with Page Floory serving and they were getting some good
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: points and they just kept it up and they took
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: the lead. There was some time outs. I mean, it
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: gets loud, it gets crazy. I love that venue out
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: at Meridian High School and Seal ends up winning at
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: twenty five to twenty three. And then they took the
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: fourth one twenty five to twenty. I took live video
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: of the fourth set that that they won to make
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: it three to one, players running out on the court.
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: I mean, it was. It was intense and that got
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: a lot of views on Instagram and stuff like that
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: because I kind of knew this was a big, big
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: moment for them and to keep their season alive and
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: just they're just such a fun team to watch and
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: it was it was really happy to see. It's kind
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: of it was just tough that Lindon had to lose,
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: but you know, you look at that roster and you go,
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of underclassmen. They will have another season.
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: Chris Elsner is a fantastic coach, no problems as far
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: as know, like they're not going anywhere soon. You know
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: they're gonna they'll they'll be back now. They are a
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: staple the state tournament for sure. I couldn't tell you
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: the last time they didn't make it. So it's kind
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: of weird that they're not going. But but yeah, they
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: were eliminated here and the Mariners moved on.
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 2: Now by moving on, you mentioned it, they get Archbishop Murphy.
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 2: That game was on Saturday, one pm out there at
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 2: Meridian and Archbishop Murphy. They come away with a three
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 2: to one win.
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I felt bad because I kind of sandwiched this
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: between the soccer game, the Bellingham Linden soccer game, and
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: the Linden Christian Kingswick Christian football game that I had
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: to be at. So both the soccer and the volleyball
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: game both started at one. The football game started at two,
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: and I was going to try to make it all three,
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: so you know, figure that one out. So I just figured, Okay,
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: if I go all the way out to Civic first
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: and catch the beginning of that, and I have to
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: go out to Blaine later. Halfway between there and Blaane
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: is Meridian, So stop at Meridian, catch a set there.
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: And the set that I was there for see Home
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: won and I thought, oh man, I don't want to
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: leave because I what if I'm the good luck charm?
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: What if? You know? And they won that second set
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: to even at one to one, and but I had
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: I had to go. I mean, I had so many
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: places I need to be at, and I end up leaving.
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: I go out to Blain High School to catch the
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: Lindon Christian football game. I'm I'm catching it on NFHS
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: while I'm catching the soccer game and the shootout. I
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: mean it was just Saturday was crazy, you know, and
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: all at the same time, I'm getting updates about cross
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: country state championships, and I mean it was just go,
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: go go, and you know, Archbishop Murphy, they're just they're
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: just there's no holes on that team. They're so so good.
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: And and when like Seahome would make a fantastic you know,
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: comeback or something where it was like, oh my goodness,
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: they just saved that somehow where it would always get
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: a point like something. You know, Archbishop would do something
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: defensively to keep it going. It's like, are you kidding me? Like,
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: and their fans got into it. They were loud, they
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: traveled well. They had more Archbishop fans there than Seem fans,
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: which is telling me a lot about Archbishop. I mean,
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: they come up from Everett and they they packed that house,
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: great atmosphere, and you know, it's just too bad Sea
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: them couldn't pull it away. They lost the last one
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: twenty eight, twenty six, great great thrilling finale there, but
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: SEOM season came to a close. So no team from
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: two A going to state from Walkam County. I should say, uh,
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: but I you know, I'm going to be there. I'm
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: going to keep my eye on Archbishop and Burlington because
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not going to cover him, I'm not
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: going to write about him, but I'm going to watch
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: a little bit because I'm really curious to see how
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: they compare with the rest of the state. Yeah.
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 2: That's very intriguing. I mean, it really is. And obviously,
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 2: again we don't know anything about Ridgefield. I think it
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 2: is is the number one seed in the state tournament.
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: So yeah, and I mean I saw Ridgefield last year.
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: They had that girl who was going to Stanford plays
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: on like the U eighteen t and she was the
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: real deal, you know. And I think another I think
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: Auburn had a team or no, someone had a team,
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 1: not Auburn, but they had a team. They had a
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: player that was going to Auburn for volleyball.
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So I was like, I don't know if it
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 2: was Columbia River or I was gonna say. The first
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 2: name that came to my mind was Columbia River.
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so there, Yeah, those were those are the two
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: teams that played for the state title.
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and they were they were league rivals as well.
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: Right right, And they ended up playing for the state
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: title and they you know, the Stanford girl and the
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: Auburn girl, and then the third fourth place game was
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: Lyndon and Burlington. So so yeah, I'm really curious to
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: see who's back and all that stuff. And it's gonna
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: be fun. I mean, I loved it last year. It
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: was so intense and it was so cool, and you
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: you talked earlier about the ten forty five game being
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: an early game. I think when I went down there
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: last year, I you know, I get there, I walk in,
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: I show my credentials, I get my vest, and all
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: of a sudden, there's a game in ten minutes. It was.
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: It was eight fifty in the morning, you know, and
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: Knooksack was playing at nine am. I was like, oh, okay,
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: here we go, Here we go. Like it was you know,
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: it was just weird. You know, the players are warming
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: up right there, and it's you know, I haven't even
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: eaten anything yet. I mean, it was just it was
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: a it was a different feeling. But I'll be ready
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: for it this time, and it's gonna be awesome. I think.
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 2: Linden is probably Linden and Seahome excuse me, are like
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 2: a perfect example of why it's needed to have like
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 2: a play in round of thirty two, you know what
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 2: I mean, like like what we see in football. And
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 2: I mean both those teams I think probably have a
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 2: decent argument that they could very easily make it the
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 2: semi finals and into the finals. I mean they yeah,
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 2: you know, if if the brackets sorted out right.
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: But yeah, but a great thing about those two teams
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: is combined only four seniors, so just crazy, you know. Well,
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: so we'll see how it goes now for four great ones,
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: I mean Emmy Lee, Maddy Barons, Lee Lockwood and for
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: Seahome and then Cameron Permanents for Lyndon. But you know,
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: great great coaches. And I mean you're right. I mean
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: I would I mean selfishly, I would love for them
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: to have a chance and stuff. But we'll see how
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: it goes. And you know, it's it's a tough conference now, Tyler.
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 2: We do need to talk about three a a little
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 2: bit too, because Ferndale's is still going there now. We
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 2: haven't really talked much about them recently because we've been
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 2: they've been kind of in limbo, if you will, waiting
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 2: to play in this playing round. And they did take
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 2: on Meadowdale and this was a home game for the
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 2: Golden Eagles and they defeated the Mavericks three to nothing.
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So with the district tournament in three A those
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: that playing round is you know, that's you know, if
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 1: you lose that you're done. But if you win, now
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: you're into double eliminations. So they do win that one
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: against the Mavericks. They got to play at home. I
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: watched a big chunk of it on NFHS and they
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 1: look pretty in control. I mean, twenty five to sixteen,
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five to fifteen. Again, they have a great
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: atmosphere there, the brand new gym, new scoreboard, they do
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: a lot of graphics, some cool stuff. You know, they
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 1: do a they do a you know, they do a
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: pizza commercial with Jake Mason holding the pizza, you know,
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 1: which is pretty funny. That same picture we used when
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: he was the guest picker. So yeah, yeah, but Ferndale
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: a very good, strong defensive team, not not super strong
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: at the net, but they get you in a lot
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: of other ways. I mean, they're they're they're setter. Brooklyn Larrabee,
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 1: you know, she's done an intro for us, just amazing, amazing,
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 1: athlete and they could do so many, so many things,
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: but really impressed with you know, their players up front offensively,
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: Svetlana badak Ley Williams, you know, combined for twenty four kills.
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: So that's a little not un orthodox. So it's a
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: little different than their game usually. Uh So, maybe they're
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 1: peaking at the right time, which is gonna be huge
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: because once you get to the three A districts, big
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 1: time opponents up and down. So we'll see if they
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: can continue their run.
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 2: Ferndale they are the five seed and this week they
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 2: will head to Lynnwood to take on the Royals at
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 2: Lynwood High School. They are the four seed. And the
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 2: interesting thing here, Tyler, is four teams from this conference
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 2: move on to the state tournament. So Ferndale definitely in
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 2: the thick of it. I mean they have, you know,
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 2: a very very good shot of moving on to the
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 2: Yakama Sundom. That would take place the twenty second and
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 2: twenty third, so a few days later after the well,
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 2: I guess the one A because we don't really care
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 2: about the two ways, but yeah, it'd be about a
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 2: week later there. So so yeah, we'll keep you updated
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 2: on Ferndale and what they got going on. They could
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 2: be playing what three games this week, win, lose, kind
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 2: of a couple of things here. They basically they have
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 2: to win two games, is what it is. If they
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 2: lose the first one, they can still win two and
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 2: move on to state. If they win that one, then
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 2: they have to win one out of two to move
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 2: on to state.
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 1: So gotcha. So yeah, they're very, very capable, and they've
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: done a lot of state runs recently. They just didn't
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 1: get there last year. But you know, like I said,
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 1: they're very capable. They have like ten or eleven players
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: that they play regularly, so they have a lot of
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: subbing that they can do. They have a lot of
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 1: players that are very like special they're they're very you know,
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: they're very specialized in what they can do. And they
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: use you know, you're you're allowed to use eighteen subs
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 1: in a set. I mean you're not gonna you know,
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: you're probably not gonna reach that. And so they use
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: them very well. And they get a lot of you know,
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: girls in the rotation and they all understand their role
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: and and yeah, and basically it's Brooklyn Larrabie's out there
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 1: the whole time, and and she just kind of moves
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 1: everybody around and sets it all up and they keep
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: it going.
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 2: Uh that's it for volleyball game. Thank you to Akracher
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 2: and Foxy Brown Consignment in the Linden for their continued
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 2: to support Tyler. Let's talk about the play of the
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 2: week this week and North County Alliance FC has always
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 2: they sponsor everything having to do with girls soccer. So Tyler,
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 2: who is the girls soccer North County Alliance FC Player
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 2: of the Week.
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: Well, when you look at that the week that was
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: and what Bellingham had to do, it's really really incredible.
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 1: And one player that kind of stood out for me
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: is the senior Ruby Brown. I mean it was you know,
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 1: she had the early goal against Squalkum, she had the
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 1: goal in the shootout that that pushed them over the
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 1: top against Linden to get them to the state state tournament.
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: Just an unbelievable moments there for her during the week
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 1: and and for her to do this as a senior,
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: you know, and she's she's a defenseman. I mean, she
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: plays in the back, so not a lot of chances
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 1: to get goals, you know, so you know when they
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: set for a corner kick that bring everybody up and
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 1: so you kind of have your shot there. And then
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: for a shootout, you know, you line everybody, all the
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 1: players up and you get your turn. And so she's
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 1: made the most of her opportunities. So Ruby Brown from Bellingham,
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 1: she's your North County Alliance FC Player of the Week.
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 2: Turfstra Law they sponsored the volleyball Offensive Player of the Week.
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 2: You can find them at seven oh nine Grover Street
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  Speaker 2: in Lindon. Give them a call. Three six zero three
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 2: one eight ninety three hundred Tyler who is the Turfstra
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 2: Law volleyball Offensive Player of the week.
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 1: You know, when Meridian came into this season, I you know,
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: they had one senior last year on a team that
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 1: finished I believe fourth in the state, and you know,
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 1: you think, wow, that's pretty good. Wether senior was an
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 1: amazing player. I mean, Emery Clay's you know, six foot one,
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 1: flying through the air. You know, she would just get
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 1: a ton of kills. And I thought, that's those are
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: big time shoes to fill. And but I'd heard that
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 1: there was this freshman coming in that will basically just
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 1: take that spot, and I thought, man, that's that's asking
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 1: a lot. But Melanie Short of Meridian has really had
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 1: an amazing season and she had a great week, you
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 1: know after the set back against Lennon Christian. To put
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 1: her team, you know, to move her team forward to
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 1: get that state birth is just huge. So Melanie Short
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 1: from Meridian, she's your Turbster Law Offensive Player of the Week.
• 1:17:14
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  Speaker 2: Acceleration Driving School in the Linden Volleyball Defensive Player of
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 2: the Week.
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this goes to Ali Wright from Lyndon Christian. Just
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 1: a junior. You know, a lot of times she'll on
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 1: social media, she'll post some highlights videos of what she
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 1: did during the week, and they it looks like a
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 1: college player. I mean, just she's so dominant, great great
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: time in, great athletic ability. And what she did defensively
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: in this run here, especially against Grant Falls a lot
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 1: of blocks. But it's she's more than just a defensive player.
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 1: She's really turned into a great offensive player at the net,
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: and her serving is fantastic. She's got like this side
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 1: spin on her serve that she does every once in
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 1: a while that you know, she doesn't she doesn't even
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 1: leave her feet, you know, it's like she just stands
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 1: there and just hits it. And it's like she's so powerful,
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 1: so athletic, and she's tall enough to where she can
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 1: do that and put this weird side spin on it
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 1: where players can't get a good you know, they can't
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 1: get a good shot off it. You know, they can't
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 1: or they can't receive it well enough, I should say.
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 1: And it's really really impressive. I'm excited to watch her
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 1: more at the state tournament and curious what she does
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 1: against some of these other great players in the state.
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 1: So Ali right from Lynden Christian is your Volleyball Acceleration
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 1: Driving School and Linden Defensive Player of the Week.
• 1:18:50
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• 1:19:02
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• 1:19:04
  Speaker 1: Tyler, is that it we done? I'm looking at the
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 1: clock right now and it is straight up midnight, so
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 1: I think on the dot on the dot, and nobody
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 1: is listening.
• 1:19:15
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