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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 238 - Winter Sports Wrap Up 1-22 to 1-27 · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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This is welcome sophomore swimmer Dylan Fish and you're listening to the WACOM Preps podcast
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with Tylan Riley roll Storm. Greetings and welcome into the watcom Preps podcast.
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This is episode of two and thirty eight Winter Sports Weekly wrap Up for Monday,
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January twenty second through Saturday January twenty seventh. I'm Ryland Spencer. Along
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with me as always is Tyler Anderson WACUM Preps. Tyler, how we doing
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doing good? It's been a crazy week, a long week, and uh
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ready to wrap up the weekend by doing this. And so people opening their
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weekend by listening to this, opening up their week Yeah? Does that say
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weekend? Yeah? Yeah, opening up their week everybody. It's gonna be
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a very long weekend if they're opening it on Monday. Hey, we need
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to give a thank you to Dylan Fisk, Squalicum swimmer, who we will
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once again talk about because he's still breaking his own personal best numbers and stuff
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here. I mean, it's pretty wild what he's doing. But we also
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Y Farm dot com. Tyler, We've got a lot of stuff to talk
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about here. We've got boys wrestling, We've got boys swim and dive,
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we've got basketball, lots of stuff going on, and we are getting closer
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and closer to tournament time. It is starting up here real soon. In
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the first people that are going to go into tournaments are starting right here with
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boys wrestling, and that's what we're going to talk about first, Tyler,
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there were some dual meets going on this week. You told me you didn't
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really have any information as far as any tournaments, so as far as we
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know, just the duel meets, and it looks like there was four of
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them over the last week. Huh, Yeah, there's a lot. On
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Tuesday, Meridian defeating Lyndon forty one to thirty three. All of these are
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really close, which can get for some craziness. As far as in the
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last few matches and you wrestled as a heavyweight, was it always that format?
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Back then where you were the last match no matter what. Yeah,
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so I want to say it was my senior year is where they kind of
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turned it into they would I don't remember how they always decided, but it
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would start it like a random one, right, and I don't remember honestly,
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you know, I still don't know how that's decided. Matter of fact,
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I know, is it randomly? Yeah? Well, I was at
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wrestling Bothel was wrestling a couple of schools on Thursday, And now that I'm
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thinking about it, they started it like I don't even know where it was.
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It was like one hundred and forty or like it was like some it
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was somewhere right in the middle. And yeah, I have no idea how
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they do that. Uh what do you do to like text leap or something,
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because yeah, I honestly don't have an idea. I don't know what
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it is. I was just curious because as if you're a heavyweight, do
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you and you know it's going to be a pretty even for the duel?
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Do you do you Are you looking forward to that final match or is it
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like, oh man, this is all gonna come on me. Yeah?
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Yeah, I love being the finisher, like I loved being that guy.
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That was when they I remember when they when they switched it. I remember
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not liking it because of that, you know, the place it was.
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It was kind of weird too, because like you'd go from heavyweight als in
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your back down at one hundred and three pounds and then you know, you
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wrestle two more matches and it's over, and it was like, I don't
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know, it just seemed weird. But yeah, I mean, I remember
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there was a couple of times where you get down right to the end and
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it's like, all right, all I gotta do is not get penned and
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we're good. You know, yes, you know, but or there was
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time where you know, you're up by two and it's like, hey,
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now you got to go out and win. You know, you got to
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go do your thing. So yeah, I mean, I yeah, it
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was fun. I loved it. It was. It's always one of those
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things where you're like, all right, I'm the this is I'm the man,
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Like I am I'm the man here, like this is this is me.
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The crowd's gonna go nuts because I'm gonna beat this dude up as well.
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We're doing here. But yeah, I'm looking at the scores here Tyler,
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and I mean you said it, it was forty one thirty three,
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But then it looks like the other ones were all within you know, a
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match or two of each other. Yeah, exactly, Burlington beats Mount Baker
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thirty seven thirty six. That's, you know, as close as it gets.
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H Obviously, I've covered a match where it was a tie and it
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was I think it was Squalicum, Squalicum's heavyweight, Archie Jorgensen. I'll never
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forget that end the Seidrow heavyweight and it ended in a tie, like the
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you know, the the meat and and the tie and because of the pin,
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it's gotta be a tiebreaker, right there wasn't It was a tie that
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that that was it. I remember that. I think it was the first
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story I ever wrote for the Herald that they put on the front page of
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the Herald. They're like, hey, yeah, great pin places going nuts,
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and it's like, yeah, well we didn't lose. Well, i
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mean Seidrow at the time was just running rough shot through everybody, so I
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think that was a pretty big deal. Yeah the day. Yeah, and
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they're still i mean not yeah, they're still really good, but they they're
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not nearly as dominant as they used to be, right, and and Ferndale
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defeating Blaine forty four to thirty one, which basically they captured the Northwest Conference
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championship by doing that, Ferndale's got Ferndale's got some really big time, high
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end talent, but they got a lot of kids to fill out all the
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classes. And that is huge. When you can bring you know, you
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know, even more than fourteen to a to a tournament, especially you know,
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going onto the postseason and stuff like that is just huge. And you
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can just start racking up points that way, knowing that you'll probably have three
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or four guys make it into the semis or maybe even the finals. That
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that's huge. So and then on Wednesday to Sedger Wolley defeated Lyndon forty six
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to thirty six. So, uh, getting getting ready here, really close
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to the subregionals or districts or however you want to call it. And yeah,
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wrestling some we fun subregional but really what it is is it's a district
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tournament. Yeah, I know Ferndale's going to I think is it Edmonds Woodway,
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Yeah, something like that. There is And then the two a's at
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sedge A Woolly, right, and then the one A. Now, the
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thing that's interesting would the one A would that be just the four schools up
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in Waukam County. Would they combined with some of the schools some of the
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other schools in District one. I'm trying to think of who those would be.
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Uh we granted Falls, yeah, granted Falls, Sultan, right,
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yeah, right, south Woldby. Yeah, you know, I don't know
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if they do. That's something we need to get an answer on that one
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maybe. But yeah, yeah, you know how we can get an answer,
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we'll probably have you know, winners and stuff next week, you know,
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or hopefully exactly so yeah, yeah, next week, but yeah,
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yeah, and if it is, if it is in Walkham County, because
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the two day thing, you know, usually Friday and Saturday, I'll probably
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if I find out where it is, I'll probably pop in there for a
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little bit and get some information because, uh, those are always interesting.
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I mean I've covered some, especially when I wrote for the Herald. I
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remember covering one where two Baker guys wrestled each other and and it was like
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in the semis, and it was hilarious because like they kind of like messed
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around a little bit and then like one pushed over the other one and he
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fell and and he just kind of put like a finger to his chest and
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pinned him or something like that. It was it was hilarious. Uh.
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And then and then I also was at a meat once you were talking about,
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you know, being the heavyweight and being being the guy. And Mount
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Baker was very, very dominant in the late nineties, and they won the
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state title in two thousand and I'm trying to remember what I think it was
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in ninety eight. It was right after I graduated and I went to go
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watch my buddy Travis wrestle and it was a it was a double duel.
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In his first one, you know, he pinned the guy in like it
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was crazy. It was like sixteen seconds or something like that. And then
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there was I'm not going to say the school because it's another Walking County school,
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but they were Baker was wrestling the other school and they took him out
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because they figured they didn't they didn't want to make the other school look too
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bad, and they put in the JV guy to wrestle heavyweight and it was
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a it was a shutout. It was something you know, seventy three to
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zero or whatever ended up being, and the JV guy in the heavyweight in
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like forty eight seconds, and Travis was like, I could have done that.
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Yeah. And so it's just it is crazy about like how it all
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goes and and it's it's exciting. I mean, you go to those tournaments
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and it's just and people are getting into it's so cool and it's a great
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atmosphere. And so I'm enticed to see where it's going to be and I
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can get in there for a little bit and get some pictures and and talk
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to some people'll be cool. Have you ever been to the Matt Classic?
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Tyler, Yes, complete, Yes, it is. I think I went
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in ninety four, and then I went again in ninety seven, and then
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I went again in ninety nine, I think. And I love it when
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they're all walking around, you know, in the beginning and and they're playing
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the Rocky four song, and I just awesome. It's such a cool deal.
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See, everybody knows how much I love for ball, and to me,
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football is you know, it's the ultimate team sport. I think the
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Matt Classic is the best sporting event that happens in our state. It's unbelievable
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seeing all those mats out there and seeing just all those people and it's I
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mean, they've got like two or three announcers talking at once where you know,
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it's like, oh, over on Matt fifty four, we've got this
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car, you know, like whatever. It is just like crazy. And
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it's not fifty four mats, but you know what I mean. But what
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is it. I think it's twenty four mats that they have out there.
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I can't remember, yeah, because I think it's six six areas on the
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four in each, or four areas and six in each, No, six
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areas and four in each. Whatever it is, but it's a ton of
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mats and it is a lot of fun to watch. But it's complete chaos
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because you know, you hear like everybody going nuts and you look over you're
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like, oh, who's on their back? Like somebody's on their back,
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and then all of a sudden, boom, and you know, the place
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goes nuts. In that one corner. You're like, oh, that guy
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over there just lost. I don't know who he is, Like, I
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don't know what's going on over there. And maybe it's a little easier to
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do now because a lot of people could pull it up on their phone and
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at least look at you know, kind of like real time crackets as to
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like, yeah, oh, this guy's gonna be wrestling in a little bit
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over here, you know, like whatever. But I love the MAC Classic.
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I think it is just so much fun. Programs are so cool where
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so you know, back in the dayways I remember getting the program and be
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like district District one, District two or regional Region one, Region two,
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the picture of the guys. Yes, yes, oh it was so cool
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and I remember just seeing that and just you know, it was fun having
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some really good friends that were out there wrestling, and and uh yeah it
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was awesome. I you know my senior year, you know the actor Chris
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Pratt, Yeah, from Lake Stevens. Yeah, so he he got I
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think he got fifth at the MAC class his senior year. Yeah, and
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his last match was against a kid from Bellingham. So his final match of
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his high school career was against a kid from Bellingham in ninety seven. So
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I know we placed either that or the Bellinghand kid placed, or maybe it
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was a fifth eighth place match. It was something like that. I can't
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remember exactly, but so that was a pretty cool deal. And I was
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there for that, So that's kind of neat. Yeah, it's pretty neat.
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Yeah. So I mean, obviously you know he's gone on to do
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some big things. But you know what the funny thing is, I heard
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he has I know who he is. I have no idea what that guy
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ever did. As far as like acting, I have no idea what he's
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famous for. I remember really none, Tyler. You know, I don't
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really watch TV or movies. Yeah, okay, parks and rec No,
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you haven't seen it. I know what it is, but I don't know,
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okay, because I think you would love it. And did you see
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Moneyball? Yeah, the Baseball movie? Yeah? Yeah, he plays Scott
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Haddiberg in that. Oh you know what, I had no idea. I
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had no idea that was Scott Haddiberg. See, this is just like when
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I went to the Super Bowl in New York and everybody's like, oh,
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brune Omar's brune Omar. He's doing the halftime showing. I'm like, all
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right, I know that. I don't know any of his songs, and
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then as he starts playing his music, I'm like, oh, yeah,
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I know that song. I know that one. Yeah, I've heard that
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one. I had no idea that Bruno Marves songs. Yeah, he's in
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all the new Jurassic Park movies and all that stuff, and I don't really
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care about those, but I've never I honestly, I've only seen the first
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one. Yeah, I've never seen even the second one, like Jurassic World
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or something, wasn't that Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't know.
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See, that's the thing is, like, I don't know. I'm so
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busy with just so many things. And I have been like ever since high
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school that I don't really watch a lot of movies. And like, yeah,
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I got rid of Netflix. Oh I guess he got me. He
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was big in the Marvel stuff and I'm not a Marvel guy at all.
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So I got I got rid of Netflix, Tyler, because they got they
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took the office off there, right, Yeah, And that was the only
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thing I was ever watching. Because people are like, oh, you Parks
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and Rec. I think was on there too. People are like, oh,
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you love Parks and Rec. I'm like, I'm sure I probably would.
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But when I sit down to watch something on Netflix, I have to
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watch something that I'm not that I don't care if I fall asleep during Yeah,
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because I'm going to fall asleep. So like with the Office, I'd
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seen them all and i'd seen them all thirty times. So if I fell
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asleep watching it, big deal, because it's just going to move on to
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the next one and then on the next one put on cheers or whatever.
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But the thing is you fall asleep on season one episode three, and you
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wake up at season two episode nineteen, you know, and you're like,
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oh crap, you know, yeah, parks and rec Well that's brutal,
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yeah, because you don't you don't remember where you were, you know,
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stuff like that, where it's like with The Office, I wake up and
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it's you know, Michael Scott Paper Company, and I'm like, oh,
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this is a great episode, and then I just start watching from there,
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you know, like or great one of five episodes for the Michael Scott Paper
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Company. But like, yeah, so that's that. I love the Matt
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classic And uh it's do you did you ever hear? I'm sure you probably
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did. At ala Verdi used to sing the national anthem, or he would
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sing God bless or no, what is it not? God bless? Yeah?
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No, America the beautiful is what it was. And man, he
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was awesome. I used to love that as a kid and like hearing him
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sing it and his own kind of rendition of it, and oh man,
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it was awesome that the Matt Classic is just the best Man, it really
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is. I love I love the Gridiron Classic, but it's so different with
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the Matt Classic because everybody's going at once. Could you imagine all six football
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games going at once for the state championship in one place and you can watch
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them all, you know, like that would just be complete. I mean,
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it is funny because I say it would be complete mayhem. But that's
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literally what the Matt Classic is. It's just mayhem. It is just you
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know. And we've broadcasted it a couple of times when I was doing stuff
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for the WIAA network and it was like, yeah, I'm sitting there,
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I'm not I'm not announcing. I'm doing the you know, the on screen
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graphics and stuff. Yeah, And I hear a thud and I look over
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and there's a guy getting pinned on the next Matt and next to No,
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I'm not even paying attention. I don't even know what the score is.
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Whoops, Like something going on in our Matt and you're paying attention here because
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I'm watching that get pinned over there, like, yeah, you know,
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especially in the finals, man, when you get into the finals and there's
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only six mats going on, Yeah, and when somebody's on their back and
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the whole place starts going nuts and you're like, oh wow, You're like
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looking around like, oh, it's over there on the four I'm at,
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and you know, it's like, oh my goodness, like that's gonna be
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a huge upset. And then you know, the kid wins, and then
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he jumps on his coach and you know, like, yeah, it's so
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cool to see. To see an individual state championship is so much fun.
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Yeah, you know, and then it's you know, obviously heartbreaking on the
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on the back end of it, sure, but it's so much fun to
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see that stuff. But yeah, we'll be, uh, we'll be following
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that stuff closely because we've got some guys. We've got some guys that we
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think have a real shots here to win the state championship. So we'll keep
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everybody updated on that. Tyler, Let's talk Boys Swim and Dive. Boys
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Front Street in Linden and Tyler. Dylan Fisk gives us the intro today and
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I see his name in blue, but I also see a couple other ones
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with some names I don't know. So, yeah, who are some of
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the new top times here in the boys swim and dive? Yeah, Dylan
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Fiske broke his own record on the fifty freestyle twenty three seconds flat, which
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is just flying. You know, he had it at twenty three something,
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so it was barely broke that one. Jack Leagan broke his own record in
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the dive in the diving from Seahome two hundred and twenty three and a half
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points and six dives, and he's basically been the guy in diving for Wall
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of Walking County all season. But if you look at the rest of these,
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when you look at you know, it's a couple of relays, but
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you just it's all Dylan Fisk and Miles Kratzenburg of Bellingham. But then this
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two hundred freestyle relay, now it's a Seahome team that jumped in there,
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Jake Champagne, Jamison Schmidt, Jackson Rodgers and Cohen Matthew from Sea Home take
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have a new time one minute forty one point two seconds in the two hundred
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freestyle relay. H those relays, man, I you know, I I
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love relays. You go to a track and field event swimming and it's just
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talk about chaos. I mean, it's it's crazy. You get a really
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close relay going and and just the screams and the cheers and it's you know,
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and then and the acoustics in there. You know, you can only
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imagine it's just crazy sounds. So uh so good for Sea Home getting up
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there and and and having a top time now in Walking County, and postseason
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for swimming also is right around the corner. People that are listening to this,
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uh they're getting ready. I mean post season is going to be this
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upcoming weekend. So uh yeah, a lot of a lot of district qualifying
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times around the county and uh going from there to get to state and stuff
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like that. It's gonna be it's gonna be really cool. There's some big
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time, top end talent in Walking County and and you never know, it
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might have a couple of other guys that can sneak in there and get some
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good, really good times. Yeah, Tyler, I'm just looking at it.
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I correct me if I'm wrong. Here, there's eleven different events and
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Dylan fisk is there's twelve. Is it twelve? Well no, I'm talking
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not the dive. Oh okay, eleven without the dive. I'm talking got
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just swimming. Yeah. Yeah, Well, because Dylan fifth doesn't dive as
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far as I know, right, although he probably could. He is first
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or you know, part of a team that's in first in seven of the
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eleven. Yeah, and then Miles Kratzenberg is in three. And then the
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only one that is the new one there, the two hundred free style relay
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with the guys from Seahomes. So yeah, I mean that is unbelievable.
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It's just yeah wow. And he's only a sophomore, right, He's just
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a sophomore. Kratzenberg is a senior. Wow. Yeah. So it's it's
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gonna be really impressive to see going forward how these teams do and and uh
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yeah, it's it's really really cool. And see, I mean their their
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team is really really good. Just you know, they can rack up the
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points by by filling all the slots. It's a huge team and and so
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you start looking at they might maybe they won't bring home an individual champion,
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but team wise they might be able to, you know, get a lot
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of points. I know, you know, Ana Chordus is really good too
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swimming. So yeah, we'll see it's gonna be it's gonna be interesting to
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see how all that, you know, pans out in the postseason. Well,
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and here's something that I guess we kind of maybe need to know as
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well, is how many events can he participate in, say at the state
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tournament right right? And and that's something that you know, I know that
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coach Elsner listens to. He coaches at Squalkum. He might he might.
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You're hearing this now, coach, Yeah, send me a message because I
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know in track and field it's four. Yeah, I'm and and it seems
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like by just by looking at these results sheets, it looks like it's four
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at these like swim meets. Yeah, well you're saying in the county at
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any meat, he's only doing four? Right, They kind of move around,
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But I but I don't know if you qualify for seven different times,
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can you compete in all seven of those at districts? So coach, let
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me know. Uh, and do you imagine doing all seven of them at
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the state tournament? You'd be exhausted. Yeah, I mean I would imagine
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it. I mean, I don't know if it's a one or two day
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thing. Yeah, I mean Michael Phelps was doing like six or seven of
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them, wasn't he? Yeah, exactly exactly. And I know Michael Phelps
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of Wakam County, right, I know Track and Field State is over two
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days. Yeah, so you know, I would assume it's got to be
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two days. Yeah. I would imagine no way they could do all of
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that in one day, could they? Yeah? Because I don't know,
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don't they all use the same place. It's all it's all at the Quatic
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Center and Federal Way right for state? Yeah, I don't I'm not even
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sure where they have it. And it's well, it's always been at the
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King County Aquatic Center because that's like a that's like a an Olympic swimming type
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thing. Yeah. Yeah, they've done I'm pretty sure they've done the Olympic
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swimming trials there before. Oh maybe I'm wrong, but I but and I
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don't think that I don't think they do it. They're anymore because I'm pretty
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sure they use big arenas now. Like I know they did it at the
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at the arena in Omaha, Nebraska one year because I saw like a what
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do you call it, like a time lapse of them yelding. Yeah,
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they like built the floor and like filled in a pool. It was really
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cool a lot. Yeah, that was probably one of the coolest time lapses
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I've ever seen. Yeah, King County Aquatics Center fifteen sixteen seventeen on three
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days. Oh wow, yeah, three days is what it says. Oh
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here, actually, Tyler, I can tell you exactly what the schedule looks
22:42
like. So Dylan Fisk would be swimming in what two A. Yeah,
22:49
so the prelims in the final for diving are on Thursday. Oh wait,
22:56
we've got three A guys too, right, yeah Ferndale, Yeah, Ferndale,
23:02
So three A diving. So diving is all on Thursday. Okay,
23:07
So that's so diving gets out of way on Thursday. Friday. Three A
23:11
swimming is in the morning and then these are prelimbs that is right behind it,
23:18
and then one A and two A start at four to forty five pm
23:21
on Friday, February sixteenth, and then Saturday February seventeenth. The three A
23:26
swimming finals warm up begins at seven thirty am, and then the finals begin
23:34
at eight thirty and then four A warm ups begin at twelve to fifteen.
23:41
Finals begin at one fifteen, and then one A in two A. Why
23:45
is there such a huge gap? I don't know. One A in two
23:48
A their warm ups begin at five and then the finals begin at six.
23:53
I don't know why there's such a huge gap. Oh wait, I guess
23:56
it does take a long time, but it just seems like the gap between
24:00
four A and one A is bigger. But so, yeah, that's I
24:03
mean, that's pretty wild. That's a long day of swimming. Man.
24:07
You figure they started. It says facility opens at seven am and then the
24:12
swing finals for one A two A don't start until six. Good lord,
24:18
I'd hate to be the facilities manager or that. Let me tell you,
24:21
Yeah, you can't pay that guy enough money. But yeah, so that's
24:26
coming up. I mean it's coming. It's right around the corner. I
24:29
mean, yeah, well, Tyler, the next time we talk, it's
24:32
gonna be February, right, Yeah, yeah, we're only a couple of
24:34
days away from February. So I mean, we're right in the mix of
24:37
it here. So yeah, that's boys Swim and Dive. Again. Thank
24:41
you to Staff for Insurance for their continued support. Let's talk boys and girls
24:45
basketball here. We'll start with the girls scoreboards once again, as always,
24:49
brought to you by Edilne Darry Tyler. I've seen some crazy scoreboard numbers going
24:55
here. What was the one the other day? I saw one the other
24:59
day. Oh is a Linda girls? Yeah, yeah, it's all sixty
25:02
nine to seven. Yeah, we'll talk about that one because I when I
25:04
saw that, did you see my comment on that? Yes? I did.
25:07
Yeah, I actually got actually got quite a few likes out of people.
25:11
Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, let's talk girls basketball scoreboards here,
25:15
and we'll start with uh, let's start with Meridian at Mount Baker and Bellingham.
25:18
Tyler, tell me about those three, Well, there were some wins
25:22
here. Meridian picked up a couple of wins. They beat Bellingham thirty two
25:25
to twenty six, lost to Oak Harbor forty eight to thirty seven in a
25:30
game where they were, you know, just kind of let slip away at
25:33
the end. And then they played a non league game on Saturday afternoon.
25:36
They beat Sultan thirty six twenty six. So they went to and one on
25:38
the on the on the week, which was great for them. Mount Baker
25:44
lost to Sidra Wooley sixty one to forty. Uh. There was a little
25:48
bit of a scare at the end of that one where a player, you
25:53
know, she she she dove for a ball or something and and she landed.
26:00
You know, she kind of knocked the winner, you know, did
26:03
It wasn't great, But then there, you know, right after that,
26:04
there was a foul. She lined up, she's not shooting a free throw,
26:07
but she's on the side there getting ready to rebound, and the referees
26:11
not giving the ball to the shooter, the referees talking to that player,
26:14
and all of a sudden, she just passed out straight back and uh and
26:18
hit her head and it was kind of it was a really scary moment.
26:21
As I'm watching the film, this is happening, and I'm like freaking out,
26:23
and she's okay. She actually got a concussion from falling back, I
26:27
believe, and but she was. She was at the game a few nights
26:33
later when they played Bellingham. She was on the bench, so it was
26:37
good to see her in good spirits. But I know that she's resting now
26:40
and she has she won't be clear to play for a little bit. But
26:42
that was tough because one of the best, it was one of one of
26:45
their is their best post players. So when they played against Bellingham, they
26:48
lost fifty to thirty one. So Bellingham picking first win and I think they
26:53
snapped a ten game losing streak and they avenged an earlier loss to the year
26:57
to Mount Baker, so beating them fifth to thirty one. Uh So,
27:02
so Bellingham went one and one, Merity went two and one, and Mount
27:04
Baker unfortunately went oh to two and and uh, it's been a long year
27:08
for those young mountaineers. Let's talk Ferndale and Blaine. How about those two
27:14
schools. Yeah, Blaine. Blaine had a pretty weak you know, only
27:18
only eight girls, and and then then the whole program. I know,
27:22
we talk about it every week and it's unbelievable. Yeah, it's unbelievable.
27:26
How you know, most of them are playing over thirty minutes a game,
27:32
and the games are thirty two minutes long, so it's it's uh, it's
27:36
a war of attrition out there for them. And but Blaine to beat Mount
27:40
Vernon the three eighteen fifty six to forty lost to Burlington Edison, a really
27:45
strong two A team uh sixty two to twenty four, but turn around and
27:48
beat Anachordus thirty nine to thirty three in a game where they were down after
27:52
each of the first three quarters and then to comeback and win that one.
27:56
I think the outscored an a quarter is seventeen to five in the fourth to
28:00
win. That came at home, a huge game for the Border Rights Ferndale.
28:03
Ferndale, they started out with a really good week, beating Seahome sixty
28:06
six fifty eight in what some most would consider an upset. They just shot
28:11
the lights out. They shoot a lot of threes, but they made a
28:14
lot in that game, which was huge. They beat Mount Vernon the next
28:18
night fifty seven to forty eight, and then had a few nights off and
28:21
then they played Linden Christian, who's just they're just a busall right now and
28:25
lost to them eighty two to fifty four. So so Ferndale had a rough
28:29
end of the week, but they started pretty strong. How about Sea Home,
28:33
Linden Christian and Squalkum Way. Can you tell me about those three schools.
28:37
Yeah, see home is there. You know they played, they lost
28:41
twice. They lost to Ferndale sixty six fifty eight, and they lost to
28:42
Linden seventy four to thirty nine, and and see Holm's you know you got
28:48
to start peaking. Playoffs are right around the corner, and it's it's just
28:52
been tough for them recently. They're so good and they have such great senior
28:56
leadership that hopefully they'll be able to right the ship and get it because the
28:59
man and get right into postseason on a roll. But they need to turn
29:03
some things around right now. Lynn and Christian with Grace Heinz coming back has
29:07
just been huge for them. She's not playing on back to back nights.
29:11
They beat Anacortus seventy one to thirty three. Then the next night they didn't
29:15
heins didn't play, but they beat Lakewood seventy one to twenty nine, very
29:18
similar score. She comes back and plays against Ferndale and they beat them eighty
29:22
two to fifty four. They are it seems like every game you're gonna have
29:26
three or four different players in double figures, and when your best player returns,
29:32
it just trickles down to everybody that can fill roles in a better spot.
29:36
People are more arrested, they can sit more. It's huge. And
29:38
Squalkum has been playing great recently. I mean from where they were earlier on
29:42
in the season when I saw them to now as far as day one to
29:47
now of the season the last two months, they are the most improved team
29:51
now thirteen and six on the year. They beat ok Carb fifty one forty
29:53
two. Then they beat sixty beat Lakewood sixty three to thirty two. It
29:59
was a close game up the first quarter. They outscored them twenty two to
30:02
nothing in the second quarter, which was just eye opening. Just do and
30:06
do it on the road. Uh, Squalkum, they get after it.
30:10
They've been a lot of They've been a lot of fun to watch, and
30:11
they you know, they might squeak past and do some damage in the postseason
30:15
because they're trending right now. They're trending up where Seahome is starting to kind
30:19
of go down a little bit, and if they can somehow flip that,
30:25
you know, it could it could really change some things. But they're gonna
30:26
have to make some things. I mean, I saw the Sea on Squalkam
30:30
game and see Home handled them pretty well, but that was early on in
30:32
the season and the way things are going right now, it could change a
30:34
little bit and we'll have to see. Uh final to the two kind of
30:38
there at the top there Nuksack Valley and Linden. How about those two.
30:42
Yeah, it's just same old story. I mean, Nukzac playing Burlington was
30:47
a huge game. Burlington hadn't lost a conference game yet all year, and
30:52
so they're a very very good team and Nuksac got them fifty six to forty,
30:56
which kind of sounds like, oh, they got them pretty good,
30:57
but that's a that's a great game for Burlington to to only, you know,
31:02
lose by sixteen points against one of the best teams in the state.
31:06
So that was that was a really good showing by them. And then they
31:08
turned around and beat Mount Vernon by fifty seventy four to twenty four. I
31:11
heard that game, it's on the radio, and I just thought, oh,
31:15
man, that's a tough game to call on the radio. If you's
31:18
win by fifty, yes, you know that I want to talk about you
31:22
know, you just you know, just talk about what's going on with the
31:25
scoring and go from there. Lyndon, it's just defense man It was so
31:32
funny because that game against Anna Chordus was on Wednesday night and I was having
31:37
trouble getting the score and I texted the head coach and I've known coach Adams
31:42
for a long time, and I just said hey, And it was crazy
31:45
because I was doing the scoreboard. But then I had to run out to
31:48
the airport to pick up Joe Consensus. He was flying in from Hawaii,
31:52
him and his wife, and I almost got dressed up, like in a
31:55
suit and like held a sign that said Joe Consensus, which I'm gonna do
32:00
one of these days. It's gonna be awesome. And uh, and I
32:04
was. I got the text from the coach of the of the game book,
32:07
and it's just like I couldn't believe it. Not that the score was
32:12
sixty nine to seven, but they didn't hit any field goals. Those were
32:16
seven free those are seven free throws. Oh my goodness. That I don't
32:21
know. I don't know if that's ever happened in Walkham County history. I
32:23
know it was not against a Walukam County school. I've seen games where it
32:28
was like one hundred and two to eight, Like I remember Lyndon Christian beating
32:30
concrete girls basketball like one hundred and two to eight or something in the mid
32:35
nineties. Every now and then you throw it a layup or something like sure
32:38
right, and did not have a field goal scored against you is just I
32:42
mean that tells you the Linen defense. And then the big matchup people were
32:45
excited to see was over the weekend Lenden against Seahome and Lynnen took care of
32:50
them seventy four to thirty nine. So, uh, Lynden, you know,
32:55
they just they run, They played defense hard to You gotta shoot outside.
33:00
You have to make those outside shots against them because they do not let
33:02
anything go inside. And if you miss it from outside. You know.
33:07
They've got players that are Ryan Stephan is six three, Peyton Mills is six
33:12
to two, Finley Partcher is six to one, and they are athletic and
33:15
they will get the rebounds. Hayley Coucis is five to eight. But she
33:19
can she she does the she does the jump ball. I mean, she's
33:22
she can, she can jump. She's going to you know, she's going
33:24
to college to play volleyball. These are these are really athletic players. They
33:29
know how to share the ball. They played great defense. They play ten
33:31
girls constantly. So the two A ranks is it's gonna be it's gonna be
33:37
fun to see what they do in the postseason. And and I think back
33:40
to that Lindon Nooks that game. You know how how great of a game
33:45
was that, you know, to see those two teams play each other.
33:47
That was about a month month or so ago, month and a half ago,
33:51
and and Nooks that come pretty good. But it just it tells you
33:54
a lot about the kind of different tiers and levels of play up here.
34:00
And Knok Sacks one loss is to that team from Idaho, correct, Yes,
34:04
And then I believe they're the top ranked team in Idaho. Yeah,
34:08
that's a good question there. Lake City pretty sure, Yes, Lakes Lake
34:13
City. I would imagine five A is the highest level. Yeah, I
34:19
mean they're nineteen and one, that's what they're listed at. So I got
34:22
a feeling they're probably the top ranked team. And then Linden they're two.
34:28
They have two losses or just the one. Yeah, well they lost to
34:31
knok Sack and their other loss that's not coming to me right now. But
34:37
I'm not quite sure where their other loss was. It was. It was
34:42
earlier either way. I mean, you got two of the top teams in
34:49
obviously separate levels of play. I mean there's there's a real legit shot here,
34:53
yeah, you know, and then oh absolutely yeah, and then we're
34:55
gonna go talk about the boys here in a second. There's a real legit
34:59
shot for both of them there too. I mean, this is gonna be
35:00
fun, like this is yeah, this is getting down to I mean,
35:04
Walkom County is just it's truly unbelievable, Tyler. I mean one of those
35:09
things that like I've always known, you know what i mean, but it's
35:12
now that I'm like in it all the time talking about it with you.
35:15
It's it's pretty cool to watch. But yeah, yeah, well let's talk
35:19
boys basketball. The scoreboard is also brought to you by Eedilyn Darry Tyler.
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I stopped by there earlier in the week. I'd never been in there before.
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It was really cool. And and uh, yeah, the soft Serve
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is my go to. I mean that is just nothing wrong with Soft Serve.
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swear it's like a large, and it's it's like two bucks. You know.
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It's just, man, this is great with a vanilla and and and
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chocolate swirl. Like, oh, it's you cannot beat it. It's so
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good. I'm looking over their their website here of their of their ice cream
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flavors. You know, I love to just dream yep. And uh,
36:22
they got a couple of interesting names here, Tyler, What the heck is
36:27
fudgie Wudgie. Yeah, I think it's kind of like a chocolate thing,
36:30
but it's got a lot of other things. I've never had it. It
36:35
sounds good, I'll tell you that much. Yeah. And then this one
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here it says cafe Swirl. Now obviously instantly you think, you know,
36:42
like a coffee right, but it's cafe isballed k a f E. Could
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that could be that could be with the that could be in cahoots with the
36:52
radio station up here one or four point one k f e. Oh it's
36:55
got to be then, Yeah, I would imagine, I mean it has
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to be. If it's not, i'd be shocked. Yeah. Man,
37:01
I could go for some birthday cake ice cream right now, Tyler, let
37:06
me tell you. Uh yeah again, Ellie Drey, thank you to them
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for their continued support of watkom preps. Uh. Let's talk about We'll start
37:14
with Blaine and Mount Baker, Tyler. What do you got for those two?
37:16
Well, it's you know, Blaine had another tough week, losing to
37:22
Mount Vernon earlier in the week. Mount Vernon a very good three A team
37:27
on the boy's side, and and you know they kind of got them seventy
37:30
eight fifty three. They lost to Burlington Edison in a much closer game seventy
37:37
to sixty two. I thought, you know, Burlington is a little down
37:40
this year on the boys side, but they're really tall. They got a
37:44
kid who is at least six eight on, looks like he could be six
37:46
' nine and they and they got some other guys at about six five six
37:51
y four and they just and Blaine's a little undersized, so I'm they did
37:55
really good as far as you know what they needed to do to stay it.
37:59
There's date in that game. And then they lost Anna Chordus eighty six
38:01
to forty seven. Of course Anacortus ranked I think the fifth in the state
38:04
for two ways. So a tough week for blaying Mount Baker. Same thing.
38:08
Lost to Siege for Wolly sixty six to forty seven, and lost to
38:13
Bellingham sixty three to forty nine in a game that was within double digits or
38:16
single digits in the fourth quarter. That was really cool because that one was
38:20
on the radio. I went out to the girls game that night, so
38:23
and that the girls game started a little bit different time. It was a
38:28
little late, and I only and so I got to listen to some of
38:30
the boys game on the way out there, and I only stayed for the
38:34
first half and I was I was driving back. I got to listen to
38:36
the end of the boys game. So really really close game there. But
38:39
you know, Mount Baker at three and fifteen, they just didn't play like
38:43
a three and fifteen team. And you know they got they got some young
38:46
players. It's gonna be a bright future for them. Squalkum see Home Ferndale.
38:51
What do you got for those three. Squalicum great week, beat Okcarver
38:55
seventy one to fifty and then beat Lakewood forty seven to forty six. Fantastic
39:00
game. Uh squalk them? Is that? Just like the girls, so
39:06
much improvement from day one to now over the last two months, just crazy
39:10
and Squalum no seniors on the team, so this is, uh, this
39:15
is a really exciting time for them. I got to talk to their coach
39:19
a little bit during the during the winter tournament out at Meridian, and he's
39:22
excited. He's excited about the future and about you know, this year is
39:27
kind of like figuring out who we are and get everything together because you know
39:30
it's going to be the exact same next year, you know, unless there's
39:32
some transfers or some stud comes up from the JV or you got some awesome
39:36
freshmen coming in. But uh, you know, to beat Lakewood for I
39:40
mean lake would beat Anachordus this year. Granted Courtters is right fifth in the
39:44
state. So uh that was that was really good. See hom see him
39:46
had a really tough week this this this past week. Uh they lost a
39:52
Ferndale fifty eight fifty five and again another game where you might think that's a
39:57
little bit of an upset. It was a really close game. I was
39:59
there for that one, and it was a great game all the way through.
40:01
And then they had to play Lyndon Christian and Lyndon which is not easy.
40:06
But I tell you what, those scores they lost sixty nine to forty
40:08
four and sixty six forty seven. They played well in those games. Those
40:13
are that you know, those are teams that usually beat other teams by you
40:16
know, thirty forty to fifty plus. So it is to you know,
40:22
losing by in the twenties that tells me I lost. They only lost by
40:24
nineteen to Linden Ferndale. Ferndale beat c Home fifty fifty five. But then
40:30
they had to play some really tough games and they lost to Mount Vernon seventy
40:34
nine to fifty five. I'm still trying to get the game film of that
40:36
game. I've reached out to different people and I haven't been able to watch
40:38
that one yet, and I really want to see it. Then they lost
40:42
to Lyndon Christian on Saturday, seventy five to fifty. Ferndale they've improved so
40:49
much from last year to this year. I think last year they only had
40:52
one or two wins. So a new new coaching staff this year. I
40:58
really like what they're doing. I'm excited because they play with a ton of
41:01
energy and a lot of defense and a lot of passion. So you know,
41:07
I don't know how much noise they're gonna make in the three A playoffs,
41:10
but they've had a really good season this year. Nookzach Valley, Bellingham
41:15
and Meridian. What do you got for those three? Yeah? Nuksack Valley
41:19
having to play three games this week. Earlier in the week beating Burlington by
41:22
ten, fifty six to forty six, lost to Mount Vernon. Looks like
41:25
everyone else has been doing eighty one to fifty six. They played a non
41:30
conference game at Kings King's always very good. They've been, you know,
41:34
in multiple state championship games. Recently lost to them seventy to fifty eight.
41:38
In a game where there's a lot of emotion on the court. There was
41:44
I think I think there were players, assistant coaches getting thrown out. Really
41:49
a little bit of little little things going here and there. It was like
41:52
my kind of night. And I was watching the live feed because there was
41:57
no no NFHS or Anthony that but again, Uh, Knoksack Valley parent,
42:02
thank you very much. Tanya Silvis was filming the game, and and you
42:07
can see comments like, you know, keep it going after the game,
42:09
you know, you know, you know, you you never know what you're
42:12
gonna pick up. Yeah, you never go to commercial if there's if there's
42:15
mayhem going on. Right, it was pretty civil at the end there,
42:19
but it was, uh, you know, there was there's some stuff.
42:22
You know, Nooksack Valley Kings talk about the football season. Yeah, uh
42:25
king, you know, so there's probably some stuff there. Bellingham know,
42:30
they lost a home game to Meridian sixty five fifty nine in a crazy game
42:35
where the JV game ahead of it went into triple overtime. Oh so so
42:39
they didn't get to start their game until much later. And and both teams
42:45
have guys that are swing guys that are playing a ton of minutes, so
42:47
now they probably can't play at all for the varsity game. Yeah, and
42:52
uh, Meridian wins that one, right, Meridian wins that won sixty five
42:54
to fifty nine. And then and then uh but then Bellingham you know turned
42:58
around and beat Baker sixty three forty nine on Friday. Stay in that,
43:02
you know, they're above five hundred. They're doing well. But they played
43:07
that that game against Mount Baker without King k Van Hooton. I believe I
43:12
didn't see I didn't see him. So that's one of their best players.
43:15
So well, I don't know about what's going on with that. Meridian had
43:19
a great week beating Bellingham and then beating Oakharb seventy five thirty nine. You
43:23
know, they're a team that's kind of a mystery. They're kind of up
43:27
and down. They they have games where there's some mental lapses and you're like,
43:31
man, they should be doing a lot better, and then they play
43:34
up to their potential and they play outstanding. So you know it's in the
43:38
in the one A level, you got LC and then you know it kind
43:43
of it's kind of a mystery after that. And Meridian has the talent to
43:47
be that second place team. They did lose to Nuksack, so knok Sak
43:52
has that advantage of him right now, and they have their game up on
43:54
them already in conference play, so Nuksak is holding that second that second seed
44:00
if you will, in the one A districts. But yeah, it's gonna
44:04
be it's gonna be interesting because Meridian had. They they can shoot, they
44:07
got tons of size and really good coaching. Linden and Linden Christian the two
44:13
big dogs. What do you got for those two? Yeah, it's just
44:15
same old, same old. I mean Linden Christian having three games. They
44:19
beat Lakewood seventy five to seventy three, and just an awesome game. It
44:23
was a game winning dunk actually just dunk back, back door cut Cayden Stite
44:30
gets it, dunks it well that it was actually seventy three to seventy when
44:37
that happened. So they went at five when he hit that dunk. Uh.
44:39
And then so Lakewood hitted three like a desperate or you know, kind
44:43
of a three at the end with like five seconds ago, and then Elsie
44:45
didn't even have to inbound it and they didn't have any timeouts left. So
44:50
uh so that was an really exciting game to watch. Then they beat Sea
44:54
Home sixty nine to forty four in the middle of the week. Then they
44:57
beat Ferndale seventy five to fifty so LC again very very even. They got
45:02
a lot of guys that can do a lot of things, and they're just
45:07
they're just so fundamentally sound and really tough to beat Linden playing Anacortis. I
45:13
was at that game Wednesday night. I parked near Everson. I believe that
45:19
was the most cars I've ever seen, and there's more than football games.
45:23
There was a ton of people there and I was, you know, I
45:27
was walking up to the game and during the pregame and there were kids that
45:30
were like a group of kids and they were like, who are we rooting
45:34
for? They're like, I don't know, have you ever been here before?
45:36
No? I mean there was people showing up that had you know,
45:38
they just wanted to see this matchup. They don't even know what city they
45:42
were in, right, They just they just wanted to see Linden and Ana
45:45
Chortas and they got to see a whale of a game. It was awesome.
45:50
Sixty four to sixty two Linden one unbelievable game, and then they beat
45:54
Sea home on Saturday sixty six forty seven. So yeah, it's it's it's
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crazy, you know, it's it's just unbelievable. I mean, it's it's
46:06
for the the on the boys side, Lenny Christian and Lennon are just they're
46:09
up there. They're up at a different level. There's a lot of good
46:12
Skadget County teams. Talking about Mount Vernon and and uh Ana Chordis and you
46:17
know Lakewood's good. So there's there's some really good scadget teams that we don't
46:23
talk about very much, but they're really really good, and they're gonna give
46:29
some of those walking kind of teams that run for the money in the postseason.
46:31
Yeah, and we are starting with the postseason here. I see.
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The first game is February fifth, is what it says for the for the
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one A one A boys basketball tournament, and then two A I believe would
46:45
be the same day, right Yeah, two A is February fifth as well.
46:49
So it's here. I mean, it is right here, right now,
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and we are ready to go, Tyler. I mean this is a
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yeah right, it right in it. And we've got a lot of teams
46:59
that are gonna doing a lot of things here in Wakam County. So yeah,
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be sure to keep it, you know, keep tune wacomepreps dot com.
47:06
I'm gonna have everything for you, Tyler. Let's talk about the girls
47:09
basketball and boys basketball games of the week. We'll start with the girls.
47:14
What was the what was the best game you saw over there. Ooh man,
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there were some good ones, you know. The Meridian Bellingham game was
47:22
good, a couple teams that really needed to win, playing each other,
47:27
low scoring game, thirty two to twenty six. Blaine coming back and beating
47:30
Anna Chordis was just awesome. I mean, there was a lot of emotion
47:35
on the floor. To come back and score seventeen points in the final quarter
47:37
to win by six was huge. But the game of the week was Ferndale
47:42
beating Seahome sixty six to fifty eight. That was a game where, you
47:45
know, I'm not a betting guy or I don't you know, I don't
47:49
know a lot of that stuff. But if someone said, you know who,
47:52
I would have gone in that game saying I favor Seahome by like eight
47:54
or nine. That's how I would have looked at that one. And and
47:58
Ferndale just shot the lights out. Naomi Stanley went off on the on the
48:02
three point shot. Uh. They you know, they have a lot of
48:06
players that can shoot a lot, but they all shoot around twenty five to
48:09
thirty percent. But that night they shot great. They beat them by eight
48:14
points. Huge, huge win for Ferndale and a great This great win for
48:19
that program, and and uh yeah, it's just it was an awesome game.
48:23
What about on the boys side, what do you got over there?
48:27
Oh? A lot of good ones. Again, It's it's weird because you
48:30
look through some of these games and you go, oh, that one was
48:32
kind of a blowout, or that one you could tell from the beginning.
48:36
But this was just that week of great games. I mean, these were
48:39
all games that there was a There was four of them that could have been
48:43
game of the week type games. I went to that Ferndale Sea home game.
48:45
It was awesome all the way through it. And it was so cool
48:47
because almost the whole Ferndale staff is from Seahome, which was which was really
48:55
cool. I mean, these are guys that coached with Seeholme last year.
48:59
You had a Ferndale assistant coach where his little brother played on the Sea home
49:04
team, you know, I mean Michael mcclinn and Mason mcclinn. I mean,
49:07
it was just there were just some really cool things. Coach Jordan Chalfont
49:13
that we love from football. You know, he's an assistant for Ferndale for
49:17
basketball, he's an assistant for Squalicum for football, and he's the head Sea
49:22
Home Girls golf coach. What so he's he coaches three different schools, three
49:30
different seasons and shout out to coach Chalfont. They they won state golf last
49:35
year, so he knows, he knows what he's doing. So so that
49:37
was really cool to see the love there with the connections the Seahome and Ferndale.
49:43
So that was a really good game, a huge crowd. Uh.
49:45
Squalkum beating Lakewood by one was an awesome game. I mean that was just
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you know, Lakewood is full of shooters and that you know, when you
49:53
when you can shoot, you can always you're in every game. And they
49:57
were coming back at the end, coming back at the end, but Squalkam
49:59
was just making their free throws and they just they just made enough to win
50:02
that game late. And then the Lake would also Lakewood playing Linden Christian.
50:07
Lakewood Lake would play great in the beginning, but Linden Christian, you know,
50:13
they they find so many different ways to beat you. Cayden Stit hadn't
50:15
scored a point until three minutes left in the game, didn't score a point
50:21
and he hits like a fifteen foot jumper from the from like the free throw
50:24
line and that was I think that tied the game or got him really close.
50:29
But then when he had that back door cut, took the bounce pass,
50:30
went up and jammed it two hands. Crowd went crazy. He only
50:35
had That was his third and fourth point of the game, and that was
50:37
Those were the biggest points he had all season, give him a five point
50:40
lead. Lakewood does hit a three at the end to make it close,
50:44
but the game of the week man was Lyndon and Ana Chordus. The atmosphere
50:47
there had to have been at least two thousand people there, maybe more.
50:53
It was there was not a seat anywhere to be had. It was I
50:58
mean, it felt like someone was sitting on my just the anxiety I was
51:00
feeling from it. But it was something where I had to be there.
51:04
I had to witness this. I wanted to see up close, Davis Fogel
51:07
and Anthony Canalis go at it. I mean, it was it was intense.
51:12
I saw tons of people from other schools there. It was the game
51:16
to see it was. It was awesome. And what was funny about it
51:21
was this was during pregame, I'm talking to our guy Randy Small and he
51:25
was talking about you know what, Lindon is really good at that. You
51:30
know, that kind of gives them the edge in this one. And I
51:32
was like, what's that? And he goes offensive rebounding. They're just really
51:37
good at offensive rebound. I thought, okay, okay, we'll see how
51:39
that goes. Yeah, every single time, like they'd miss a shot,
51:45
they'd get the pot back and put it in and he'd look at me and
51:47
you'd go offensive rebound and he just kept doing it. It was hilarious.
51:52
And then I left about well during halftime. I had to go over and
51:57
check out the band, obviously because they were rocking it. Yeah, and
52:00
then I left about halfway through the third and I'm listening to the game or
52:05
you know, actually I wasn't listening. I was what I had it like,
52:09
I had like the the NFHS on my phone. Whoa, whoa watch
52:15
while you were driving. Steve Gatman is gonna get on you. No,
52:19
No, he's retired. I said it. I set it up. But
52:22
I could listen, like I could hear like the crowds, the cloud's going
52:24
crazy. Then I know Lennon did this. I'm big and it's loud.
52:29
The crowd's going nuts, like the speakers are all kind of like kind of
52:31
crackling. As soon as I get home, I put the game on.
52:35
I'm watching the end. They win it on a put back, like on
52:39
a on a misfree throw, offensive rebound, get the ball inside score with
52:45
like two seconds to go. Get a text from Randy. They just won
52:49
on an offensive rebound. It was awesome. I mean, for the offensive
52:53
rebound, that's what happened. Oh, it was. It was great.
52:57
It was such a good game, and Anna Cordus traveled. It was it
53:02
was fantastic. And you just get that feeling like they're gonna meet again somehow
53:07
somewhere in the postseason. But well, that's that's two games for them,
53:13
right, like they they split a season series. They no, no,
53:20
Anda Churtus beat Lyndon Christian. Yes, that's that's what I was thinking.
53:24
Wow, So that's that, and that's and that's Linny Christians only loss of
53:27
the year. Yes, that's right. Yeah, so it was definitely boys
53:31
basketball game of the week. Unbelievable game. Yeah. I don't even know
53:35
what it is, Tyler, but I'm starting to see Canalis's name, like
53:37
on Twitter, I'm like, I don't even follow some of these people.
53:40
How am I seeing Canallas's name now? Anyway, Tyler, awesome games this
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week. Let's talk anytime Fitness Girls and boys basketball players of the week again.
53:50
Anytime Fitness in Linden, Linden, North Ferndale. Those are the three
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that are sponsoring this specific segment. Anytime Fitness Girls Basketball player of the Week,
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Tyler, who do you got? Yeah? On the girl's side,
54:04
Lyndon freshman Finley Parcher. You know a during yeah, during volleyball, there
54:09
was at least three or four different people that came up to me and you
54:13
know, we're talking whatever during a Linden volleyball match. We you know,
54:16
you go around and you talk about each player and how well they're doing stuff
54:20
like that. And every time we got to Finley Parcher, I swear I
54:22
heard this like three or four times. Have you ever seen her play basketball?
54:25
Like and I'm like no, You're like nope, but I'm excited.
54:30
But I just kept hearing that, kept hearing that. And for her to
54:34
be a six to one guard and girl, I mean, you just don't
54:37
see that in high school basketball. And she is legit. She can shoot,
54:42
defend, rebound everything, dribble pass. She had a great, great
54:47
week. And so yeah, Finley Partcher of Linden is your Anytime Fitness Girls
54:52
Basketball Player of the week. See Tyler, this is where So first off,
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you said schau Font was coaching, was coaching gall right, yes,
55:00
all right, well now we got to have like a long long drive competition,
55:06
you know what I mean, Like we're talking about this stuff. Now
55:08
we start talking, Finleypartre here, I mean, maybe we got to play
55:12
some one on one right, Yeah, we're talking now, we're talking because
55:19
I don't know about moving the whole lot. I'd loved, I'd loved if
55:22
a coach let me go through the layup line a few a few runs just
55:27
for fun. But I gotta, oh, I think it'd be hilarious.
55:32
But I'd be wearing my my walking Preps hoodie and going through there, and
55:37
you I mean, I'd put it behind the back and like got like an
55:39
old like Grant Hill Pistons jersey or something. My goodness, you know what,
55:44
I do have an old Grant Hill Pistons jersey. But I got really
55:46
great jersey. Oh yeah, I got, I got. I got some
55:50
great old jerseys like Bryant Reeves, Vancouver Grizzly, Big country, Big country.
55:53
Yeah, I mean I got I saw I'm playing the funny four got
55:57
a Danny Fortson, Denver Nuggets, jers Andy Fords and former Sonic by the
56:01
way, Yeah, yeah, I played at Cincinnati. Why do you have
56:05
his dead for Nuggets jersey? Like it? Because I saw it a goodwill
56:08
for like four bucks. I gotta have that. Yeah, I mean I
56:12
played. I played on a slow pitch softball team where our jersey we all
56:15
wore throwback NBA jerseys and uh yeah, I I yeah, it's just crazy.
56:22
We had a Hersey Hawkins and oh yeah, that's you know what I
56:27
was. So you know, I've been doing the public address announcing for Bothel.
56:30
Yeah, and we have a girl. Her name is Mikaylie Hawkins.
56:36
I love saying her last name because it always makes me think of Hersey Hawkins,
56:42
the guy that just go nuts, and obviously I'm that guy. I
56:45
kind of go nuts when whenever she hits a three. Oh her first name
56:50
has like nineteen e's in a row. Yeah, oh I let it go.
56:54
I really go along with it. And then I also I always end
56:57
up saying four three yeah, and like, you know, really go nuts,
57:04
and you know, people who love it, but we have fun.
57:07
I like to go nuts, man, It's it's a lot of fun,
57:09
especially now that I know how to not like you know, like really go
57:14
crazy and like you know, Blair the Speakers. But right right, let's
57:17
see here boys basketball Tyler, what do you got for the Anytime Fitness Boys
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Basketball Player of the Week. This was really tough. I had a few
57:27
players and what crazy thing was they were all like, guys that I've already
57:30
won it in previous weeks and and you know that's happened. Dawson Bouma's winning
57:36
twice already this year. And I gave it to Tallon Jenkins from Meridian.
57:40
Meridian with two huge wins this week, and he went off in both games.
57:45
I think he scored twenty five in the first one, thirty one in
57:47
the second, rebounds, blocks, everything. He's a legit six' five
57:52
guard that is definitely gonna be playing somewhere and when he goes off, he
57:57
just he just he can take over games. And he did that this week
58:00
and the Meridian needs those wins. He was a big time catalyst in that.
58:05
So Talon Jenkins is from Meridian that just a junior is the Anytime Fitness
58:07
Boys Basketball Player of the Week Again Anytime Fitness and Linden North and Ferndale.
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They are your sponsors of the Burly Boys and Girls basketball Player of the Week.
58:19
Tyler, what about some upcoming games this week to look for as far
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as the girls are concerned, Well, this is the final week of conference
58:24
plays, so this is it now. These are the ones that are gonna
58:28
determine seeding all sorts of that. Are you gonna make the playoffs? Are
58:30
you not? There's some there's some really good one on the girl's side.
58:34
Burlington at Lindon is huge. Burlington is you know you're talking about too,
58:39
of the two way powers kind of in the Northwest Conference. That game being
58:44
at Lindon's a big, big thing. And you know they're not gonna hold
58:46
Burlington to seven points, I'll tell you that. So that's gonna be a
58:50
really good one. That's Monday night at seven fifteen. See home at Lyndon
58:53
Christian. Also Monday night at seven fifteen. Sea Holme's gotta you know,
58:58
they're kind of in a slump right now and it doesn't get any easier against
59:00
Lendny Christian. That's gonna be a really tough one Nuksack Valley at see home
59:05
again. See them playing against Nuksack Valley is not the easiest thing in the
59:09
world. But but the thing is is that they're really good with senior leadership,
59:15
and I think that that could be a pretty decent game. That's on
59:17
Friday. But the big game, oh man, Lenny Christian and Linden Are
59:22
you kidding me? Saturday night, seven fifteen at London High School. That's
59:25
going to be the one that is gonna I mean you think that that Linden
59:30
an a chordus game having you know, twenty five hundred people or so in
59:32
the stands, It's going to be more than that in this one on Saturday
59:37
at Saturday night at seven to fifteen. Yeah, there's be people hanging from
59:39
the rafters Tyler, I mean it's gonna be great. Nuts. What about
59:43
on the boys side, what games you got over there that you're looking forward
59:45
to? Well? Talk about Mount Vernon at Linden. I mean that is
59:49
just classic. That was supposed to be played a few weeks ago. The
59:52
snow happened got it pushed back. So this is one where people have been
59:57
wanting to see this one for a while and they expect that a few weeks
1:00:00
ago it didn't happen. So that's gonna be on Thursday. I tell you
1:00:04
what, Linden Christian at Squalicum. I'm not saying upset alert or anything,
1:00:08
but Squalicum is just playing so great right now and hosting Linnen Christian, so
1:00:15
that's gonna be. That's that could be a really really great game. I'm
1:00:19
excited about that one on Wednesday night. But again the Inner City game on
1:00:23
the on Saturday boys Linden and Lynnen Christian at two pm at ELC, and
1:00:30
I've been hearing that like they might play the game somewhere else. I don't
1:00:37
right now, it says that it's at Linn and Christian. Lennon Christian holds
1:00:40
way less people than Linden does. I have been to a game at lind
1:00:45
and Christian where literally like there is no place to stand at all, and
1:00:51
I remember standing on the baseline like holding a notebook the whole time taking notes,
1:00:55
and my arm was so sore because I yeah, I was holding it
1:01:00
for an hour and a half just that that way, and I just there
1:01:04
was no play, there was no place to sit there. It's crazy,
1:01:07
So I don't know if that game is gonna get moved to Linden or not,
1:01:12
But that game every single year, and it's how fitting. It's the
1:01:16
last day of the regular season. I mean, two days later is when
1:01:20
districts starts. Souh. That's gonna be an awesome game every year, the
1:01:24
two and the boys and the girls both. I mean, oh man,
1:01:30
it's just awesome. It's gonna be great. Yeah, it sounds like another
1:01:35
fun week of basketball. And it's the last week of the regular season before
1:01:38
we get into excuse me, the playoffs. So yeah, yeah, I
1:01:45
mean it's yeah, we're we're right down into it, Tyler, which is
1:01:47
crazy because we just stopped talking about football like two weeks ago. No nuts.
1:01:52
Yeah, we got to figure out a way to make that go a
1:01:53
little bit faster next year. Yeah, anything else, Tyler, we've done.
1:02:00
The only thing is again that Lennon Linden Christian. Even on the boy
1:02:02
side, these are the two. They're both two time defending state champions.
1:02:07
So wait, hold on, they've both won the last two state championships on
1:02:13
the boys side. Yet Oh yeah, I mean this is Premium Marquee here
1:02:15
we go. Yes, Yeah, it's just gonna be crazy. So h
1:02:21
man, I just can't wait. And this is you know, I just
1:02:24
love that the basketball community has taken me in and and and allowed me to
1:02:30
go around. I mean, I go to a Ferndol game and all of
1:02:34
a sudden someone will grab a chair and put it there for me. I'm
1:02:36
sitting right there on the baseline, sitting in a chair. Oh, it's
1:02:39
it's great. I look like I'm like I'm supposed to be like working there
1:02:43
or something like that. It's maybe it's trying to tell you something. Yeah,
1:02:46
it's it's fantastic. It's so fun to go into these gyms and learn
1:02:51
about some of these athletes that I've only heard about, you know, Anthony
1:02:54
Canalis, guys like him, where I Talon Jenkins, guys that I've heard
1:02:59
the name, but I've never really and I've maybe seen a clip here there,
1:03:01
but I've never like seen them up close and personal and just how crazy
1:03:06
athletic they are. And it's just it's been a joy. It's been so
1:03:09
much fun, and I feel blessed that I get to go and do this
1:03:15
and have fun doing it. Alrighty we got anything else? What we've done
1:03:20
done? Alrighty? Well he is Tyler Anderson, walkom Preps, walkompreps dot
1:03:24
com. I'm Roan Spencer. You've been listening to Episode at two hundred and
1:03:29
thirty eight, a winter sports weekly wrap up here on the Walk Them Preps
1:03:32
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