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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 462 - Week 8 Football Recap · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Greetings and welcome into the Whatcom Preps podcast. This is
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  Speaker 1: episode 462, the week eight football recap, and I'm Tyler
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  Speaker 1: Anderson of Whatcom Preps. Do you live in Whatcom, Skagit Island,
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  Speaker 1: or San Juan County and want to become an official?
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  Speaker 1: Officiating is a great way to give back to your
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  Speaker 1: community and ensure our youth have an opportunity to compete
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  Speaker 1: in athletics. Go to nwofficials.com to find out how you
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  Speaker 1: can get involved. All right, so we got Handful of
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  Speaker 1: games here to talk about that just took place over
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  Speaker 1: the weekend. We are going to go in chronological order,
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  Speaker 1: which means we start off with the Thursday night game
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  Speaker 1: as the Sultan Turks came to town to take on
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  Speaker 1: the Blaine Borderites in a game that I think a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people looked at and said, this is pretty even,
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  Speaker 1: although they're two different teams. Sultan, a 2A team, kind
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  Speaker 1: of in the middle of the pack of the 2A
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  Speaker 1: Northwest Conference. Blaine at the bottom of the Northwest Conference
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  Speaker 1: in 1A. And Sultan very run heavy, a lot of size. Blaine,
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  Speaker 1: not a ton of size, but great athleticism and they
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  Speaker 1: like to air it out. So it was going to
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  Speaker 1: be a great contrast to go check out. And right
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  Speaker 1: off the bat, you knew something was special as on
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  Speaker 1: the second play from scrimmage, Connor Brown hit Isaac Bauma
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  Speaker 1: on a 68 yard touchdown pass. And it didn't stop there. Um,
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  Speaker 1: as people already know, Connor Brown broke, um, multiple state
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  Speaker 1: or school records and two County records. Um, Yeah, as
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  Speaker 1: far as he's now the Blaine's all-time leader in passing
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  Speaker 1: yards and passing touchdowns, having gone past Caleb Luman in
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  Speaker 1: passing yards and Nathan Cramie in passing touchdowns in a career.
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  Speaker 1: But then he also broke Whatcom County records for a
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  Speaker 1: single game by passing for 567 yards in a single game.
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  Speaker 1: And that broke Ty Taubenheim's record. And then he also
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  Speaker 1: threw seven touchdown passes in the game, which I think
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  Speaker 1: eight different people had done. They had thrown for six.
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  Speaker 1: So unbelievable game for Connor Brown. I was so glad
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  Speaker 1: I was able to be in attendance for at least
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  Speaker 1: the first half of it just to be a witness
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  Speaker 1: of some of it. It was a great, great performance. And, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: just a lot of great things. Obviously, Connor Brown, 33
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  Speaker 1: for 48 for 567 yards. Hunter Candenoza, 18 catches for
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  Speaker 1: 226 yards. He broke the school record for catches in
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  Speaker 1: a game. It's also the second most ever in Whatcom
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  Speaker 1: County history. And so another great game by him. Isaac
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  Speaker 1: Bauma had 11 catches for 260 yards. That broke the
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  Speaker 1: school record for receiving yards in a single game. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: him and Candenoza broke both records. Both broke Todd Byrd's
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  Speaker 1: record of receiving yards in a game, but Bauma had more,
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  Speaker 1: so he holds the record now. So pretty incredible there.
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  Speaker 1: Jackson Bogarts also caught three passes for 79 yards, including
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  Speaker 1: two touchdowns. And freshman tight end Dimitri Shavorak caught a
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  Speaker 1: two-yard touchdown pass as well. And really, really impressed with
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  Speaker 1: what Blaine did. They were clicking extremely well. You know,
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  Speaker 1: playing on a Thursday night, you just kind of never
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  Speaker 1: know how that goes. I always feel like on those
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  Speaker 1: Thursday night games or Saturday afternoon games that the home
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  Speaker 1: team seems to have a big advantage on that just
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  Speaker 1: because it's not a normal Friday night. So things are
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  Speaker 1: kind of thrown out of whack. And then if you
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  Speaker 1: throw in, you got to get on a bus and
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  Speaker 1: travel with all that. It can really kind of make
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  Speaker 1: things weird, especially on Thursday night. So Blaine took advantage
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  Speaker 1: of that. Sultan stayed with them early, but they had
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  Speaker 1: a good drive early. Well, they threw an interception early on,
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  Speaker 1: and Axel Shelton had the interception. And then on our
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  Speaker 1: second drive, they got down to the red zone, but
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  Speaker 1: the defense was able to clam up and stop them,
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  Speaker 1: and they had to kick a field goal, but it
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  Speaker 1: was a bad snap. So they never got any points
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  Speaker 1: on the board despite these great drives. And even though
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  Speaker 1: they scored 21 points, only one of the touchdowns came
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  Speaker 1: off They also, because they had an 86 yard kickoff
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  Speaker 1: return for touchdown. They also had a pick six there
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  Speaker 1: in the, in the third quarter. So, or, and I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 1: the fourth quarter. So, so yeah, it was, it was
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  Speaker 1: all Blaine border rights. And I think it really showed
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  Speaker 1: the talent of the Northwest conference one, a where the
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  Speaker 1: team that is in last place took it to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a team that has beaten multiple two way Northwest conference teams. And, um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's, it's kind of similar to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: what Meridian and the Meridian see home game. Um, you know, very,
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  Speaker 1: very similar, although Meridian is, you know, higher, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they're going to be going to the post season when
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  Speaker 1: Blaine isn't, but it's just, it still shows that all
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  Speaker 1: pretty even up here. And, um, You know, if I
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  Speaker 1: had my way, this will never happen. I wish that
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  Speaker 1: all the 11-man teams up here, all 10 of them,
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  Speaker 1: would just play each other, and that would be the
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  Speaker 1: nine-week season. That would be so awesome because I think
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  Speaker 1: it'd be pretty good games. It'll never happen because of
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  Speaker 1: different classifications and stuff like that, leagues and everything that's needed.
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  Speaker 1: But I think it would be awesome. That's why I
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  Speaker 1: want to, you know, during the COVID year, and I
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  Speaker 1: created a– I created all the teams on the video game.
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  Speaker 1: That's how I made the season. I just made everybody
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  Speaker 1: play each other once in Whatcom County and kind of
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  Speaker 1: made some for some fun conversation there. But Blaine, Blaine
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  Speaker 1: getting the win. Big, big win for them. They go
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  Speaker 1: to three and five on the year back in conference
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  Speaker 1: play on Thursday. They're going to take on Linden Christian. Also,
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  Speaker 1: the defense for Blaine, like I said earlier, they did
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  Speaker 1: pretty well. Axel Shelton, 10.5 tackles, a tackle for loss,
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  Speaker 1: an interception. Matt Campion had eight tackles, an interception, and
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  Speaker 1: a fumble recovery. Asher Hagee, just great, great speed off
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  Speaker 1: that defensive end. He broke up a double handoff play
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  Speaker 1: and just caused all sorts of havoc on that play,
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  Speaker 1: causing a fumble. He also had four tackles. James Luce,
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  Speaker 1: who settled into a nice starting role at linebacker, he
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  Speaker 1: had six and a half tackles and a forced fumble himself.
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  Speaker 1: Dimitri Shvorak, four and a half tackles, a fumble recovery.
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  Speaker 1: Hunter Canonoza had four tackles, a tackle for loss, and
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  Speaker 1: a pass broken up. So the defense came to play
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  Speaker 1: as well. Loved what Dax Thompson did on a quarterback sack,
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  Speaker 1: breaking through the line on a third long pass. That
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  Speaker 1: was really cool to see. It was probably the most
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  Speaker 1: animated I'd ever seen Coach Olsen on the sideline. I
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  Speaker 1: was standing probably eight feet next to him during that play,
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  Speaker 1: and he gave a good old fist pump for that
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  Speaker 1: one because it was a huge play and really kept
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  Speaker 1: that momentum for play and possibly even gave them more
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  Speaker 1: momentum that was early on in the game. It was
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  Speaker 1: early second quarter when that play happened, so great, great
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  Speaker 1: win for the Borderites. Really, really happy for them, and
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  Speaker 1: And a great win in front of the home crowd.
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  Speaker 1: And now, as we move on to the Friday games,
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  Speaker 1: we'll start out at Civic Stadium, where the Squalicum Storm
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  Speaker 1: hosted the Linden Lions in a game that, boy, a
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  Speaker 1: lot closer than I think a lot of people would
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  Speaker 1: have imagined. But you got two amazing coaching staffs. And
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  Speaker 1: speaking of amazing coaches, our coach, Jeff Wood, was there
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  Speaker 1: to cover the game. Coach, thank you for joining me today.
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  Speaker 1: How are you doing? Doing great, Tyler. Man... This was
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  Speaker 1: a game that I just kind of said it. I'll
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  Speaker 1: be honest. I thought Linden would get them pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: But Coach Van Dalen said during the week, when we
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  Speaker 1: play Squalicum, it always just seems to be, not that
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  Speaker 1: they have their number, but they know how to scheme
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  Speaker 1: against them. And there's been really close games. Even last
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  Speaker 1: year's game, I think Squalicum was up two scores early
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  Speaker 1: on them. and uh but this was as back and
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  Speaker 1: forth as it went literally there were 10 touchdowns in
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  Speaker 1: the game and it was just it was lyndon scored
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  Speaker 1: one squalicum scored one lyndon scored one squalicum scored the
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  Speaker 1: whole way through there was just uh some blocked kicks
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  Speaker 1: and a failed two-point conversion that proved to be the
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  Speaker 1: difference what did you see out there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah i saw a lot of great football by uh
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  Speaker 2: a lot of players and well coached, uh, game, not,
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  Speaker 2: not as many penalties as some of the games earlier
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  Speaker 2: in the season also. So that, that was nice. You know,
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  Speaker 2: when you're, when you're watching a game, it gets in
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  Speaker 2: a better flow with less of those things happening and
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  Speaker 2: relatively quick game. Cause Linden was running the majority of
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  Speaker 2: the time. Uh, Squalicum was a little bit more balanced,
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  Speaker 2: but then, uh, Linden had a really, you know, they've, they've,
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  Speaker 2: been alternating the quarterbacks, but then they had a right
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  Speaker 2: before halftime, they had kind of a two minute drill
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  Speaker 2: where they spread it out and they showed that, uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they can, they can throw it to like the,
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  Speaker 2: the old Linden teams and had a nice drive and
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  Speaker 2: got in a field goal range and, uh, missed the kick,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, they, they definitely have that, uh, that
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  Speaker 2: part of their offense, uh, ready to go to as,
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  Speaker 2: you know, both these teams are, are playing well and
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  Speaker 2: they're looking probably to, to make the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. You know, we're getting, you know, next week is that, um, well,
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  Speaker 1: I shouldn't say next week, we've got week nine games
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  Speaker 1: coming up, but after that, it's that round of 32
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  Speaker 1: for the class two way and, and, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Squalicum playing well to end the season here. And they're
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  Speaker 1: really on an upswing. I know they, took the loss here,
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  Speaker 1: 35 to 32, but, but they're playing, they played as
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  Speaker 1: well as they've played all year in, in that game
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  Speaker 1: on Friday night. They played really well in week one too.
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  Speaker 1: But as you know, as a coach, every team has
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  Speaker 1: made big improvements from week one to week eight. What
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  Speaker 1: was the biggest thing about Squalicum's game that impressed you?
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  Speaker 2: Just their execution and their rhythm on offense and, And
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  Speaker 2: Phoenix Price throwing the ball. He made some very nice throws,
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  Speaker 2: made some nice plays, buying himself time. And then, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: Coach Lucy scheming it up. And a couple of plays
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  Speaker 2: I remember from playing against him as an opposing coach
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  Speaker 2: with a play-action pass and the post-corner route to the
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  Speaker 2: far corner. We got beat on that more than a
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  Speaker 2: few times when I was coaching at Seaholm. And, uh,
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  Speaker 2: in the screen game, there's some nice, nice screen passes and, uh, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: just the athletes, uh, the guys performed well and rose
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  Speaker 2: to the occasion. And, uh, you know, Lyndon played well too.
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  Speaker 2: They did have one fumble that, uh, kind of helped
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  Speaker 2: Squall come out in the second half where they probably
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  Speaker 2: could have took a two score lead, uh, because they
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  Speaker 2: were running it for some pretty good chunks. But, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and then the special teams thing I talked about in
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  Speaker 2: the article too. Linden had the two blocked extra points,
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  Speaker 2: and at one point there in the third quarter, Squalicum scored,
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  Speaker 2: and they're down two, and they went for the two-point
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  Speaker 2: conversion to tie it and were unable to get that
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  Speaker 2: one in the end zone. So that was the difference
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  Speaker 2: in the game in terms of the points.
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  Speaker 1: It's so crazy because– Every coach is different about chasing
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  Speaker 1: points or going for two. Is it too early? All
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  Speaker 1: that stuff. I mean, for the vast majority, isn't it
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  Speaker 1: just like a feel thing if you're deciding to go
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  Speaker 1: for two?
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  Speaker 2: It is, but you also– I would say the majority
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  Speaker 2: of coaches, you want to know probably before the very,
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  Speaker 2: very end of the game because then you know how
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  Speaker 2: many points– If you do have to get two scores,
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  Speaker 2: another touchdown and a field goal or.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever you're doing there.
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  Speaker 2: So I kind of agree with Coach Lucy on the
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  Speaker 2: timing of where he went for that one. And Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they got the offside, so they're at the one and
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  Speaker 2: a half instead of the three.
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  Speaker 1: Definitely, right, definitely.
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  Speaker 2: And the play actually looked open. And then it was,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Maddox Strickland, who's, you know, their fastest guy
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  Speaker 2: but not their biggest guy, and he just got, you know,
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  Speaker 2: stonewalled by a couple Linden linebackers there. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: exactly which guys, but they did a good job of
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  Speaker 2: closing that hole right on the goal line and pushing
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  Speaker 2: him back.
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  Speaker 1: The Linden Lions, you know, featuring this two-headed monster, well,
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  Speaker 1: really three-headed monster in the backfield with the two quarterbacks
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  Speaker 1: and Dawson Van Dalen. And, you know, when you're preparing
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  Speaker 1: for a team that has that kind of offense where,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and this has been a lot of Squalicum
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  Speaker 1: teams in the past, right, have had this, where you
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  Speaker 1: had the running back and the quarterback, both really good
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  Speaker 1: weapons with a lot of, you know, um, read option
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  Speaker 1: type stuff. I mean, what's the key on defense when
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  Speaker 1: you're going against a team like that, where, you know,
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  Speaker 1: both guys can run the ball. Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 2: It's, it's difficult because you get the, you know, the
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  Speaker 2: extra blocker a lot of times when the quarterback's keeping
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  Speaker 2: it right. And the, you know, uh, you can't really
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  Speaker 2: cheat to one side also.
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  Speaker 1: Um, and yeah, it's just tough.
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  Speaker 2: You got to stay in your gaps and grab grass
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  Speaker 2: or turf when you're up front. You know, we did
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  Speaker 2: a lot of, you know, what coach shelf wants doing. That's,
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  Speaker 2: he was coaching the defense with, uh, with us there
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  Speaker 2: running at sea home and we would, would slant some
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  Speaker 2: and sometimes two gaps slant and different things to try to,
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  Speaker 2: you know, uh, to try to be successful and, uh,
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  Speaker 2: stop in that. But again, especially when you're, You know,
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  Speaker 2: the game's won in the weight room, and Linden wins
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  Speaker 2: the weight room a lot of years.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: And they got the size and the strength, and that's
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  Speaker 2: just– you know, it's won up front, and they do
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  Speaker 2: a good job with that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, a coach– an unnamed coach, I'll say, told
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  Speaker 1: me earlier in the year when they played Linden, they said,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the biggest difference is just the eye test
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  Speaker 1: on the field. He goes– their kids have like triceps
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  Speaker 1: and our kids do not. He's like, he goes, that's
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  Speaker 1: the big difference. And he goes, and it shows on
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  Speaker 1: the field. And you're right. When you win the weight room,
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff up front makes a difference. And, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's not necessarily pretty how Linden does it,
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  Speaker 1: but they get the job done running for 331 yards,
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  Speaker 1: two different players with over a hundred yards rushing and,
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  Speaker 1: And then Bellington, who was third in rushing, had 48 yards,
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  Speaker 1: but he scores three touchdowns on the ground. It was
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  Speaker 1: just a great classic game. And, you know, Lincoln Van
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  Speaker 1: Rye getting in there, blocking those extra points, big, big
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  Speaker 1: moments for him. It was a lot of– it was
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  Speaker 1: one of those games, you know, we're doing the show,
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  Speaker 1: that show live on Friday night, and we kind of
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  Speaker 1: kept looking and just said, man, this is just– Squalicum
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  Speaker 1: just hanging around. They'd be they'd either be down or
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  Speaker 1: they'd be tied or they'd be down by eight or
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  Speaker 1: down by one or down. I mean, it was always
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  Speaker 1: a one score game the entire way through. And boy,
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  Speaker 1: it's it makes me feel like Squalicum, if they can
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  Speaker 1: get the win against Bellingham this upcoming week. and they'll
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  Speaker 1: get that, that I'm really curious what their seed will be.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure they'd have to go on the road in
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  Speaker 1: a week, 10 round of 32 game, but I wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: be surprised if they pull off an upset.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the Northwest conference is respected highly for the
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  Speaker 2: right reasons. So I think even if they, they do
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  Speaker 2: get the, the road game, I think the past couple
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  Speaker 2: of years, see home has been what, like a nine
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  Speaker 2: or a 10 with that four spot.
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  Speaker 1: So, Uh, they'll, they'll get a matchup. That's definitely winnable.
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  Speaker 2: Always tough to go on the road, but, um, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: who knows? Maybe they'll get an eight or a seven or,
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  Speaker 2: you know, again, assuming, you know, they take care of
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  Speaker 2: business and they'll be favored against Bellingham, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: Bellingham will give them all they can handle and, you know, can't,
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  Speaker 2: can't count your chickens.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: So that'll be a fun one too, for the crosstown rivalry,
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  Speaker 2: double header, I believe.
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  Speaker 1: Thursday night yeah those games got moved from Friday to
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  Speaker 1: Thursday so Thursday night now became extremely busy as uh
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  Speaker 1: the 1A games were already set for that night now
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  Speaker 1: with the Texas or the Kansas City tiebreakers not an
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  Speaker 1: option in 1A I don't know why they're not moving
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  Speaker 1: those games back to Friday night but you know it
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  Speaker 1: is what it is so now Thursday night is extremely
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  Speaker 1: heavy which means for Really boring show for us on
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  Speaker 1: Friday night with only a few games going on. But
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  Speaker 1: another big game that I think got moved to Thursday
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  Speaker 1: is now Linden going on the road to take Archbishop Murphy. And, Coach,
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  Speaker 1: I just got to ask you while I have you,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, how do you see that game going? Because
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  Speaker 1: this is going to be a heavyweight fight. Oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: for sure.
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  Speaker 2: And it's good for Linden to have played, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Squalicums running the wing tee this year.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: For seeing that because they'll be able to make some
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  Speaker 2: adjustments and, you know, having that two weeks in a row,
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  Speaker 2: you know, another week of scout teams seeing it. And
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  Speaker 2: they have obviously a good scout team up there with
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  Speaker 2: the depth they have. So I think that will definitely
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  Speaker 2: be a benefit for Linden. And are they on the
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  Speaker 2: road down there?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's going to be down at Tariana Stadium. Yeah. Yeah.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: So that'll be, you know, definitely for some, some seating
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: and yeah.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: Like you said, heavyweight battle. Yeah. And it's, it's one
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: of those where you're right about them playing squalicum, which
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: is nice. They played Ferndale earlier in the year as well.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: But I'll tell you what, I, I mean, just off
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: the top of my head, I think the two games
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: they gave up the most points were the two, the
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: two wing T teams. So that kind of scares me
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: a little bit, uh, Ferndale and Squalicum. So, uh, and
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: we know what Archbishop can do and how, uh, they
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: can score in bunches with their team speed and their
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: great line play and, and all that. So it's going
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: to make for an awesome game. Uh, we're getting right
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: down to the end of this coach and it's going
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: to be a fun, uh, It's going to be a
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: fun little trip right into the playoffs, and we're all
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: enjoying it. And I know we all enjoy when you
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: join us on the Walkin' Preps podcast. Thank you very much,
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: and I'll talk to you next week. All right.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: Thanks, Tyler.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: And next up, huge game down south at Cedro Woolley
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: as the Ferndale Golden Eagles pick up the 43-36 win.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: And this was a big, big game because this was
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: going to be who was going to be the second-place
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: team in West Coast 3A North, which throws a lot
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: of seeding into things because 3A is a little different.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: We talk about the round of 32. Yes, they do
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: have the round of 32, but they basically have a
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: round of 64 for Week 9. Um, believe it or not, it's,
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of teams that are playing to get
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: into the round of 32 in week nine, including Ferndale.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: And with the win, they get a better seed, which
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: means they get to host, which means they're going to
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: play a lesser team. They're actually going to play Oak
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: Harbor once again, uh, this upcoming Friday. So Ferndale getting
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: the win here, they jump out to a big lead,
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: a couple of touchdown runs by Elliot Lenson and Wyatt Broyles, um,
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: But then– and Ferndale churned out some long drives. Cedric
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: Woolley had very short drives as far as the amount
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: of plays ran, but they picked up a lot of yards.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: They actually had three long touchdown passes of 54, 53,
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: and 71 yards. So their drives were pretty quick that
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: way as Ferndale has had some injuries in the secondary.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: So a lot of younger guys playing, but they held on.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: There was a really interesting play. I think it was
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: in the third quarter when Ferndale's Wyatt Broyles was trying
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: to get into the end zone. He reached over and
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: it looked like as he was reaching, the ball was
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: ripped out and it just went up in the air
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: and Chance Hatchett grabbed it out of the air while
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: he was standing in the end zone. The officials talked
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: about it for a while. They ordered the touchdown to
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: Ferndale and just, you know, a lot of interesting weird
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: plays like that, that took place and, and you needed
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: a lot of things to go their way to get
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: the win. And again, You know, Ferndale made the plays
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: when they needed to, including at the very end. There
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: was a time when Cedra Woolley, I think the game
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: was tied. Cedra Woolley had the ball, and they're driving. Like,
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: they go for it on fourth down. They're moving the ball,
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, the quarterback takes off
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: and runs. Mason Buttonshone and Trevor Cutts combine to force
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: a fumble, which is recovered by Hank Whitaker. Gives the
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: ball back to Ferndale. Not a lot of time left.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: And they had the ball on their own 38-yard line.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: Less than five minutes to go. And then Sawyer Saab,
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: the quarterback, he completed a couple passes on that drive.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: A 13-yarder to Wyatt Broyles. A 17-yarder to Chance Hatchett.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Chance makes a great catch going up over the defender,
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: getting the ball. And after that, Lenson scores a 23-yard touchdown,
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: which is basically the game winner with 28 seconds left.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: Cedro Woolley, they got one more possession, and trying to
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: keep a play alive, Trevor Cutts does it again, knocks
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: the ball out of the quarterback's hands. Mason Buttonshaw recovers it,
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: and that basically did it as Ferndale held on to
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: win the game. Wyatt Broyles, how about him running for
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: a career-high 289 yards on 28 carries. Elliott Lenson added
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: 151 yards on 26 carries, and boy, it was a big,
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: big win for Ferndale, and it was... you know, it
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: was funny because I was talking to one of their
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: coaches the next night and, you know, he was saying
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: it was like an old smash mouth eighties football game.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: I said, yeah, except for there was scoring. A lot
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: of those games back then were, you know, 10 to
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: seven or seven to six, or, I mean, that's kind
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: of the way it was back in the day. And,
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: and this was, this had that feel to it, but
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: a lot more scoring. So, But congratulations to Ferndale who
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: runs for 458 yards as a team on the, on the,
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: on the day, a huge, huge number. And, you know, again,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: great job by the offensive line and, Huge win for Ferndale. Defensive-wise,
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: I thought Mason Buttonshaw had an awesome game. Six and
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: a half tackles, a tackle for loss, a forced fumble,
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: a fumble recovery. Did a lot of good things at
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: the very end there. Hank Whitaker as well, pass broken up,
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: a tackle for loss. He had that fumble recovery late.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: Elliot Lenson had seven tackles. So a lot of good
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: things there. Trevor Kutz, you know, with those forced fumbles
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: and knocking the ball out of the quarterback's hands behind
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage, that counts as a quarterback sack.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: So a lot of good things there for the Ferndale
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: Golden Eagles as they are looking pretty good to get
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: into that round of 32. Of course, they've got to
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: get that win against Oak Harbor this weekend. Next up,
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: we're going to head out to Meridian High School, Bob
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: Ames Field, as they faced the Nooksack Valley Pioneers in
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: a really even game in the first half. You know,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: it was– kind of the same thing as far as,
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: you know, running the ball versus passing the ball, but
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: Nooksack Valley obviously puts the ball in the air quite
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: a bit. But it was a couple of rushing touchdowns
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: by the pioneers early on and a couple of passing
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: touchdowns by the Trojans. And it was 14 to 14
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: at the half Casey Brennan. Also he, he surpassed a
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: hundred catches in his career, becoming the third player in
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: school history to accomplish that feat and trying to remember
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: the number of Whatcom County players that have done it.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: I know it's less than 30. It's not very many.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: So it's a huge accomplishment for him. That was his
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: first touchdown of the game was when he hit that number.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: He also had a great catch later on, one-handed snag.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: And that really, I felt like that, because it was
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: 14-14 before his second touchdown. And I thought that that
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: one-handed touchdown catch really pushed the momentum for the Trojans
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: because That gave them the lead, and then they just
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: poured it on after that, scoring the next three touchdowns
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: as well, going up all the way 42-14. And, you know,
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: Trey Alexander, another huge day, 25 of 36 through the
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: air for 393 yards and four touchdowns. And Pierce Brzozowski
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: over and over again, making big catch after big catch,
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: 10 receptions for 174 yards. Knox Gooden, the freshman, six
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: catches for 93 yards. I tell you what, three straight
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: games for him with big games and wearing three different
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: jersey numbers. You know, people are probably wondering, who in
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: the heck is this kid? And people are going to
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: find out pretty quickly because he is special. So really
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: excited for his future. Casey Brennan, three catches for 72 yards.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Trevin Crabtree, three catches for 27. Josiah Harris, two catches
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: for 16 yards. And Jackson Fannin-Steele. had one catch for
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: 11 yards. Rushing the ball, Trey Alexander, seven carries for
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: 78 yards. Ethan Balich, six carries for 26 yards. For
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: Nooksack Valley, Trevin Skenstra had 14 carries for 100 yards.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: He also scored three of his four team's touchdowns there.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: Trey Huting scored the fourth one. He had six carries
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: for 18 yards. Lucas Widwich, 19 for 37 through the
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: air for 237 yards and a touchdown. And then a
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: handful of guys with multiple catches here. A.J. Woodrich, four
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: catches for 69 yards. Dane Ackerman, four catches for 46 yards.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: Tyler Martin, four catches for 42 yards. Jaden Jones, three
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: for 58. And then Ty Behrens and Trevon Skenstra each
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: had a pair of catches as well. The loss was
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: the third in a row by Nooksack Valley after winning
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: their first five games of the season. It also knocks
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: them out of playoff contention. So you kind of know
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: this going in every year that there's going to be
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: these great teams from the Northwest Conference 1A that are
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: playoff-worthy teams, that are one of the best 16 or
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: 12 in the state, and they don't even get a
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: chance to play to be one of the best 12
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: in the state. There is a round of 24 for
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: Week 10 in 1A, and you can't tell me that
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: Nooksack Valley and Blaine are not in the top 24
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: teams in the state, but that's the way that it
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: goes today. when your conference is top to bottom, the
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: best in the state, especially at the 1A level. So
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: that's just the way that it goes. And Meridian, you know,
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: before the season started, I was telling people, I think
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: Meridian's going to go to state this year. I just
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: don't know who they're going to knock off to get there.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: And they just did it against Nooksack Valley. They're going
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: to be facing Mount Baker this upcoming weekend, or Thursday
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: night anyways, in a really good game there with both
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: teams already clinching points the round of 24, but so
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: it'll be for seeding, you know, you, you're going to
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: want to play, um, you're going to want to do
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: well in that game. So you can, you know, you know,
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: so you can see who you play a better, you know, uh,
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: a more winnable game in that week 10 game. So, um,
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: so yeah, it's, uh, It's getting right down to it.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: It's sad to see that the Pioneers will not be
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: in the postseason. I'm hoping that they, you know, they
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: do finish off the regular season this week against Marysville
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: Pilchuck on the road on Friday night. I'm really hoping
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: that they schedule a week 10 game. I just don't
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: think anybody wants to schedule them because they're, you know,
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: out of all the teams in the area around the
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: western part of the state, that have already, that have
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: clinched or not, that can't clinch, they're probably the best one.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: No one's going to want to play them. So I
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: just hope they get a game and that's, you know,
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: I would love to see that. I would love to
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: see it against, you know, another local team, you know,
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: whoever is not able to make it to the week
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: 10 round of 32. So we'll see. Maybe, hey, maybe
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: Blaine and Nooksack just play each other again. I would
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: love that. That'd be awesome. Probably won't happen. But you
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: never know, especially if both teams have trouble finding opponents.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: So that might be an option there. I would love
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: to see it. Don't think it'll happen. Defensive-wise, Meridian, a
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: huge game from Trevin Crabtree. He had 11 tackles, a
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: tackle for loss, two passes broken up, and an interception.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: Probably his best defensive game of his career. Ethan Balich, again,
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: the tackling machine, nine and a half tackles, one pass
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: broken up. Trey Alexander, six and a half tackles, a
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: pass broken up, and another interception that makes five on
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: the year. And I always love that when I see
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: a quarterback who has picked off more passes than he's thrown.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: That's always a fun stat to look at. It doesn't
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: happen very often, but that's where he's at right now.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: Defensively for Nooksack Valley, Tyler Martin came up, made a
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: lot of big hits from his safety spot, seven and
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: a half tackles, two passes broken up. Good to see
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: Silas Tierna back out there at linebacker, seven and a
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: half tackles. And Max Lautenbach, always fun to watch, three
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: and a half tackles, a tackle for loss, and a
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: big interception and return for him. So really good game
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: for him. I thought Trace Palumbo did a decent job, too,
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: coming back now wearing the club, four and a half tackles,
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: a pass broken up. Good to see him back out
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: there at corner. But For the win, it is the
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: Meridian Trojans, and they are really peaking at the right time.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: You see some of the early season losses, and I
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: know the seating committee is going to look at that stuff,
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: but they are a completely different team from week one
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: and week two. It's a really, really strong team, and
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: they got that passing game dialed in extremely well at
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: the moment. Next up, boy, it was a nail biter
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: out at Linden Christian high school as they hosted Mount Baker,
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: Linden Christian wins 21 to 14 really close game. And,
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: you know, going into it, I thought what Mount Baker
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: would have to do if they were going to have
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: a chance to win would be to contain Chris Coleman.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: Like it seems like no one has been able to
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: do it. And all of a sudden on the second
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: play from scrimmage on Linden Christian's offensive first series, uh,
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: Chris Coleman takes himself out of the game. Don't know
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: exactly what happened there, what kind of injury that it was.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: And he never returned. And so you're thinking this is,
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: you know, this is how Mount Baker can win. And
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: Lyndon Christian really did a lot. Obviously, they probably had
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: to change their game plan a little bit, go to
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: the air a little bit more. They really did a
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: good job of with the two quarterback system. as you
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: saw both Kellen Blankers and Dawson Hines line up behind
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: center and, and do some good things. Um, Kellen, Kellen Blankers,
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: he threw a touchdown pass to Hines. He also ran
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: two in and, uh, he's really cementing himself as a very,
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: very good quarterback in the Northwest conference. It's been a
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: lot of fun to see. Dawson Hines came in through
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: some long passes, uh, to Caden Feldman. He threw for
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: 142 yards and kind of his limited role at quarterback. And, um,
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: It was 14-0 at one point, Lyndon Christian, but Mount
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: Baker was able to score Tyson Barksdale on a two-yard run.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: It was 14-7 at the half. Blanker's second touchdown run
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: of the game took place in the third quarter. It
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: gave Lyndon Christian a 21-7 lead. Mount Baker was able
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: to get into the end zone in the fourth quarter
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: with a 19-yard touchdown pass from Barksdale to Gage Smith.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: And so you're thinking just a one score game. And
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: there were moments that Mount Baker could get the ball back. But,
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: you know, just they got behind the pedal. They got
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: behind the chick. I can't even talk. They got behind
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: the sticks too much. The chains. I was going to
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: say chains and sticks at the same time. I said
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: I was saying chicks. And that's hard to overcome once
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: that happens, especially against a really good defense like Lennon
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: Christian has. And then defensively, they jumped off sides on
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: a crucial– I think it was like third and four
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: play late to give Lyndon Christian a new set of
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: downs where they were able to run out the clock
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: after that. So, you know, they kind of shot themselves
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: in the foot. But Lyndon Christian, they had obstacles to
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: overcome as well. So I would say neither team probably
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: played their best game. I think it was a really
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: rough game. The competition brought that out. But the Lynx
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: came out on top, which means they won the Northwest
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: Conference for 1A. They will still– have one more conference
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: game that will be against Blaine. Of course, we talked
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: about Mount Baker. We'll have to take on Meridian. Both
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: those games will be on Thursday night. That's what I
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: love about these Thursday night games is that this upcoming
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: week is that there's, there's actually in the, in the county,
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: there's one at five, one at six, one at seven
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: and one at eight. So I'm actually going to go
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: to all four games, which is fantastic because I've missed
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: going up to games as I'm tied up on Friday
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: nights with the, with the show. But with a lot
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: of games on Thursday, this is kind of like my
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: reward for doing the show, I think, is I get
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: to actually go out and see a ton of games.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: And that's going to be a lot of fun. For
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: a statistic-wise, Lyndon Christian, they were led on the ground
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: by Mason Berenson, 15 carries for 49 yards. Kellen Blankers
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: had nine carries for 40 yards. That was the other
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: thing about Blankers. I think he had some really good
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: runs there that pick up first downs, which came up huge.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: Of course, he ran fast. two touchdowns in as well. Blankers,
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: 7 of 16 through the air for 69 yards. Dawson Hines,
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: 10 of 17 through the air for 142 yards. Wyatt Kamphouse,
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: great game receiving, six catches for 62 yards. Justin Kiewik
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: had four catches for 39 yards. Caden Feldman, three for 71.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: Dawson Hines, three catches for 27 yards. And Jackson Yoon
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: had a 12-yard reception as well. For Mount Baker, Andrew
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: Monteith led on the ground, 15 carries for 81 yards.
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: Gage Smith at five carries for 36 yards. Through the air, Barksdale,
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: five of 12 for 74 yards. Gage Smith with two
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: catches for 32 yards and a touchdown, while Enoch Smith,
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: Noah Nicole Mills, and Zion Paglia each had a reception
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: as well. On the defensive side of the ball, Trey Moorleg,
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: four tackles, a tackle for loss, a fumble recovery. Boy,
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: he was really good at sniffing out the crisscross run,
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: the double handoff, the He was coming up from his
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: safety position and blitzing a few times, and he timed
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  Speaker 1: it just right a couple times on that double handoff run.
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  Speaker 1: And those were big plays there. Caden Veldman, you know,
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  Speaker 1: definitely not 100% yet, but he had six and a
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  Speaker 1: half tackles to lead the team, plus a tackle for loss.
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  Speaker 1: Still extremely active down there. Mount Baker, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: guys that put up some numbers on defense. They were
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  Speaker 1: on the field quite a bit. Andrew Monteith, he had
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  Speaker 1: 12 tackles. Noah Nicole Mills had seven. Gage Smith also
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: had seven tackles and a pass broken up. Eli James,
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  Speaker 1: he had four and a half tackles and a sack.
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Torres also had a sack to go with his
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  Speaker 1: seven tackles. Kel Reardon had seven tackles, a tackle for loss,
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  Speaker 1: a half a sack, and a pass knocked down at
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  Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage. Zion Paglia, four tackles and three
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: passes broken up. Played some really good corner there. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: good numbers all around. A couple of teams that are
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  Speaker 1: you know, have good big time playoff aspirations battling each
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  Speaker 1: other right to the end. So good hard fought game. And,
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  Speaker 1: and like I said, two teams that will try to
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  Speaker 1: make deep runs in the playoffs this year. Next up,
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  Speaker 1: we go down to Roland Kirkby field as Bellingham went
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  Speaker 1: down there to take on the Burlington Edison Tigers. And
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  Speaker 1: it was all Burlington 56 to 21 as they got
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  Speaker 1: out to a 20 to zero lead. Um, early on
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  Speaker 1: Lucius white catches his first career touchdown pass. It was
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  Speaker 1: again from Ben Leonard to make it a 20 to
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  Speaker 1: seven game at the half. It was, it stayed pretty close.
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  Speaker 1: Bellingham moved the ball extremely well. Um, but they just had,
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  Speaker 1: they just had trouble stopping the run. And, um, You know,
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  Speaker 1: Burlington was able to finish drives where Bellingham couldn't finish
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  Speaker 1: a drive every time. They did a few times, like
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  Speaker 1: I said, Ben Leonard with three touchdown passes on the day.
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  Speaker 1: He goes 30 of 47 through the air for 306
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  Speaker 1: yards and the three touchdowns. His second two touchdowns of
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  Speaker 1: the game were both completed to Matthew Steele, who had
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: a tremendous game, 13 catches for 145 yards and the
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  Speaker 1: two touchdowns. He becomes the school's all-time leader for receiving
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  Speaker 1: touchdowns in a season, now with 13. And also, Ben
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: Leonard becomes the school's all-time record holder in completions in
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  Speaker 1: a career. So a lot of, a lot of records
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  Speaker 1: being broken this, this time of year. And it seems
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  Speaker 1: like it happens every year. There's lots of records, which
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: means there's, there's good football because there's been a lot
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  Speaker 1: of football over the years to be played. So there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of numbers out there that are tough to get.
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  Speaker 1: So it's going to be, I mean, it means a
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  Speaker 1: lot of graphics for me to create. And, and, but Hey,
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: that's what makes it fun, right? The Bellingham, like I said,
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: 306 yards through the air, but Brooks and Edison 309
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: on the ground. So again, it was a, Battle of
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: two different styles. And Burlington Edison, they're a really tough team.
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  Speaker 1: And they go right at you. And they don't really–
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: there's not a lot of like, ooh, he might do this,
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: he might do that. No, no, no. We're going straight
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  Speaker 1: ahead here. And they kind of play that way on
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: defense too. So it's really tough to run against them.
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  Speaker 1: Bellingham had success through the air, but not enough to
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  Speaker 1: win the game as Burlington wins 56-21. And then the
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  Speaker 1: last game of the weekend– took place down at Anacortes
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  Speaker 1: High School and another record-setting performance, although it wasn't by
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  Speaker 1: a Whatcom County player. But if you've paid attention to
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: Whatcom County high school football, then you know who Ryan
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: Harrington is of Anacorta Seahawks, the senior quarterback. He threw
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  Speaker 1: for 704 yards and 10 touchdowns. 704 yards, first player
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: in Washington State history to pass for over 700 yards.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: There's been a few other players that have thrown for
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: 10 touchdowns in a game. I believe Sam Huard did
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: it a few years ago. It's happened a couple times,
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: but What an accomplishment by him. And, you know, I
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: watched the game film and what was happening a lot
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: of times was, you know, the Mariners were coming. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: they were bringing seven guys. They were blitzing seven guys
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  Speaker 1: and to just try to, you know, cause havoc back there.
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  Speaker 1: And Harrington is just, he's so quick at reading stuff
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  Speaker 1: that he was able to find open guys, find the
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  Speaker 1: openings here and there and just launch the ball around.
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  Speaker 1: His receivers make great plays, a lot of runs after
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  Speaker 1: the catch, but a lot of deep balls as well.
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  Speaker 1: They did some good things as far as some big
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: pass plays. Jad Geiger threw for 226 yards. His main recipient,
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: Gunnar Andersen, had a huge game. Eight catches for 181
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  Speaker 1: yards and two touchdowns. Bane Mitchell, how about this? Two
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: for two on extra points and two for two on
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: field goals. A 33-yarder and how about a 45-yarder by
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: Bane Mitchell? And yes, I've been asked multiple times, is
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: that a school record, 45 yards? I don't know that.
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  Speaker 1: It's one of those stats that when I started doing this,
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: I don't know, over 30 years ago, keeping all this stuff,
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: that was one of the things I didn't keep. I
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: kept numbers of field goals. I just didn't keep the
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: length of them. So it's one of those where I
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: might have to go back and look at all the
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: seal and field goals, find the box scores, and see
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  Speaker 1: how the distance of all of them for me to
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  Speaker 1: find out what the longest one of all time is.
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  Speaker 1: So it's very, very possible that the 45-yarder is the longest.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't know if it is. I mean, you know,
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: there could be a 47 out there. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I know the Whatcom County longest is 53 yards. There's
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  Speaker 1: been multiple kickers that have kicked from 50 or more
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  Speaker 1: a few times. There's been a lot of high 40s.
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: but I don't know what the distance record is for Salem.
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: They've had some really good kickers, but Bane Mitchell, boy,
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: when he strikes it right, he really can get into it.
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  Speaker 1: So awesome for him, such a, such a great kid. And,
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: and so really, really cool for that. So I'm going
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: to do my best to do some research and find
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  Speaker 1: out if that is the school record for length in
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: a field goal. Defensive wise, Oliver Johnson, nine tackles, a
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: tackle for loss. I thought he, He had to do
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: a lot back there with the passing attack. Devin Bankson
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  Speaker 1: as well, six and a half tackles and a pass
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: broken up. So the Mariners fall, Anacortes wins, and right
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: now Anacortes is looking pretty darn good too with their
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: only blemish on the year against Linden. So there will
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: be a tough out once we get into the playoffs.
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: Let's take a look at the players of the week,
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  Speaker 1: and we're going to start off with offense, which is
• 42:28
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• 42:30
  Speaker 1: a staple in our community for 95 years, and I
• 42:33
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  Speaker 1: in our community. They deliver superior quality and commitment, and
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: I plan to do the very same. The Walton Beverage
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  Speaker 1: Offensive Player of the Week, no surprise here, it's Connor
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  Speaker 1: Brown of Blaine, 33 of 48, passing for 567 yards
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  Speaker 1: and seven touchdowns. Holy cow, what a game. There was...
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: This was probably the most, I don't know, the most
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: players deserving in one week. I mean, there was huge
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: numbers put across by multiple teams in Whatcom County, but
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: none bigger than what Connor Brown did. So congratulations to Connor.
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  Speaker 1: You're the Walton Beverage Offensive Player of the Week. Defensive
• 43:20
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• 43:43
  Speaker 1: really good players here. I thought Silas McGurr of Bellingham
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: had a really good game. Um, I loved what Trey
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: Morleg was doing. Um, yeah, there was, I mean, Mason
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: Button shown had a, had a huge game as well.
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: You can talk about, you know, Adam Holman from, from Linden,
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: Asher Osby Oranson of Squalicum, Axel Shelton. It seems like
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: he's in the mix every week. Same with Matt Campion
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: of Blaine, but I'm going with Trevin Crabtree of Meridian.
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  Speaker 1: I thought that he was making big plays over and
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: over again, had a lot of tackles early, kind of
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: setting the tone. He finished with 11 tackles, a tackle
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: for loss, Two passes broken up and an interception in
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: the end zone. So great, great plays by him. And
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: really cool to see him have this standout game. So
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: congratulations to Trevin on winning the Kurt Mayberry Farm Defensive
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: Player of the Week. Special teams now. We're going to
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: go to the Pets Real Estate Special Teams Player of
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• 44:56
  Speaker 1: And this is a unique one. I really could have
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: gone with Bain Mitchell of Seaholm. I mean, he's very,
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: very deserving. But I actually went with Lincoln Van Rye
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: of Linden. He blocked two extra points and you're thinking, well, okay,
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: so he blocked a couple extra points. So what? That
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: was the difference in the game and that win. If
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: he doesn't block those extra points and then they don't
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: go for two a third time. And so all the
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: extra points would be made. That game would have gone
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: into overtime. And so for him to block, not just one,
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: but two was a huge, huge deal. So congratulations to
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: the Linden senior Lincoln van Rye on two blocked extra points.
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: Lincoln is the pets, real estate, special teams player of
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: the week. And finally, the offensive lineman of the week
• 45:43
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  Speaker 1: North and Ferndale.com. as they also sponsor the football scoreboards
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: throughout the year. Huge sponsor for us over the years,
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: which has just been fantastic. This one, got to go
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: with the big man up front at Ferndale, Trey Munson.
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: What I love about watching him play, yeah, he's a
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: big dude, 6'4, 300 pounds. He can move. I mean,
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: Ferndale has had some offensive linemen that have just been
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: super athletic over the last, you know, I don't know,
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: 50 years. But like, you know, like when I've been
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: seeing the last like 10 years is that's been a
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: huge key with the polling game and different things like that.
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: And when you got a guy six, four, 300 pounds
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: that can move the way Trey Munson can move, it
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: is devastating to the opponent. Ferndale ran for a ton
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: of yards, 458 yards or whatever it was. And a
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: big reason was Trey Munson of Ferndale. So congratulations to,
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: to Trey. He's the anytime fitness offensive lineman of the week.
• 46:46
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• 46:51
  Speaker 1: All right. Well, thank you everybody for tuning in. This
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: has been episode 462, the week eight football recap. I
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: am Tyler Anderson of Whatcom Preps, and I'll talk to
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: you in a couple of days.