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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 251 - Spring Sports Wrap Up - 4-21 · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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This is Sculcome Senior Teak and Daughters, and you're listening to the Walcome Preps
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Podcast with Tyler and Ryland roll Storm. Greetings and welcome into the watcom Preps
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podcast. This is episode of two and fifty one, a Spring sports a
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weekly wrap up. I'm Ryland Spencer. Along with me as always is Tyler
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Anderson of watcom Preps. Tyler, how we doing doing great? Doing great?
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It was a busy week and looking forward to the this whole second half
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of the you know, the kind of that stretch run of all these spring
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sports with the postseason coming up and and you start seeing some really good matches
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and games. I'm excited to talk about them coming up. Yeah, and
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a birthday weekend for you. Oh yeah, I don't forget about that.
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Yeah, a nice crisp twenty four years old, Tyler, Yeah, yep,
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yep, yeah, I'm not a kid anymore. Twenty four is yeah.
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Yeah. Hey, we need to give thanks to Teagan Daughters, Squalcumb
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Seniors. Now, Tyler, this is actually interesting. She's well Squalcum senior
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sprinter. She's headed to Colorado School the mine. So excuse me, he
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but no, no, and I know this, but I talked myself into
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a circle here. What I was going to say was the name Tiagan Daughters.
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Sounds like you're saying, it's two girls going to do the intro and
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they're the Teagan Daughters. You know what I mean. That's what That's what
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that was. That's what was on my brain. That's what I was trying
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to say. Yes, but yeah, Teagan Daughters and we will well,
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no, we won't, but Teagan Daughters is on the track and field leaders
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is what I was going to there a couple of times actually, But yeah,
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anyway, Tyler, We've got so much stuff to talk about here,
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but first we need to give a thank you to Kurt Mayberry Farm. Kurt
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r y farm dot com. Oh you know what, Tether, before we
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go any further, Yeah, we can't go too far from this birthday topic
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because you sent me a picture of Blaine. Yeah, they did a little
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something special for you there. Yeah, it was pretty cool. While I
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was out there covering the game on my birthday, they were hosting Lenny Christian's
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Fast Pitch game. Good really good game. I mean it was ended four
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to one, and and I was there for about the first half that I
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had to run and go to a soccer game. And and I got a
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picture taken with this big banner that they had put up a few weeks ago,
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and it was my first time, was my second time seeing it,
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but my first time to be able to get a pick you're with it.
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And then little did I know, after the game, the whole team got
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around it, took a picture of it and put it on Instagram as a
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story and saying happy birthday, walking preps and so that was pretty cool.
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They put a Stevie Wonder Birthday song to it, and yeah, that kind
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of that made me feel pretty good. And the coach reached out, some
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players reached out, thanked them, thank me for coming out on my birthday.
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And I, like I always say, I was like, it's you
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know, when you own a business, you know, holidays are kind of
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secondary. You gotta you know, you gotta. They don't stop what they're
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doing just because yours, you know, it's your birthday. So yeah,
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you're not the Queen of England or anything over here. No, No,
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I mean I'm close. And the thing is, Tyler, let's be honest
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here, there's not many places you would rather be exactly. You're right,
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I mean, is it's so true. And back in I remember when I
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had my fortieth birthday, or I guess it'd be nineteenth going by the Matthew
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had it earlier. I announced a game that day. It was a Saturday
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afternoon noon baseball game. Lennen Christian was hosting Mount Baker and uh, you
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know, and that was with Doug Lang and like halfway through the game,
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I told him it was my birthday and he's like, it is what are
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you doing here? And I was like, this is this is awesome.
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This is what I love. So so you're right, it is what I
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would want to be doing anyway. So you know, it works out.
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And it was a great weather was awesome, so it was it was all
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good. Yeah. It was kind of an interesting week of weather because there
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was some really nice days and a couple other days that had a little bit
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of rain. We even I'm pretty sure I saw some snow, like one
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day or one night, like I don't know, I looked outside and it
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looked like it was snowing a little bit out there. I don't know,
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it's been weird. And yeah, one of the I think it was maybe
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Monday, I was announcing the baseball game and it was really cold. It
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was really cold at the game. At one point I even had to pull
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my hood up like a little a little different than trying to do a game
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in the in a press box at a at a football stadium where you get
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it shut the windows and you a little warm, you know. But yeah,
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anyway, we got a lot of stuff to talk about here. Let's
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do any commercials here soon? I'm like, is Marty cooking some things up?
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What's going on up there? You never know, you never know.
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It's so funny. Every time I drive by, I always want to like
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stop in and see if they're happened to be recording something because he just never
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knows. They're so they're so creative and uh, there's a hilarious, guess,
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hilarious Easter video that he posted, uh with his mom. Uh and
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he's all like ticked off that he didn't get an easter basket, you know,
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and it's it is hilarious and his mom's in it. I mean,
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it's just they're always they're just really creative. And that's how you know,
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that's how you stand out. I mean, everybody remembers Verne FONNK Insurance.
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Yeah, it's like gets It's what you remember is the goofy commercials and stuff
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like that. And he's making a name for himself up here and that's really
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cool. And uh, it's such a likable guy, always smiling and and
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uh, you know, one of those like friend to all kind of guys,
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you know. And glad that I've known him as long as I have.
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I mean, I remember, you know, playing against he he he
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went to Meridian and we played football against each other. And then all of
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a sudden, like I saw him working at Lids, like right out of
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high school. And and then and then we played softball against each other,
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and well we always kind of ran into each other, you know, all
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the time through the decades now, and so it's pretty cool that he's still
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connected and doing some cool stuff. A little side note, Verne Fonk or
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Rob Funk, the guy, the bald guy in the commercials. Yeah,
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yeah, one eat a legend. Let's see here, Tyler. Let's talk
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boys and girls, track and field the leaders. Uh, there wasn't a
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whole lot going on this week, but there were some key things. A
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few league meets during the week and the Big East and Invitational on Saturday.
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And from what you're telling me here, lynnon Christian broke a school record huh.
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Yeah, And you know, you know Tyson Bimah, you know,
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really good football player wide receivers. Yes, he's and he's going on to
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play football somewhere. Trying to remember exactly which school it might be. Northwestern
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College, Yeah, I think it is. Yeah, and really really really
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good athlete. He broke the school record in the two hundred meter dash with
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twenty two point ninety nine and first first athlete in school history to run a
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two hundred under twenty three seconds, So really impressive, really impressive that he
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did that. Nick Argano of Seahome. We talked about him a couple of
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weeks ago holding the county you know lead right now in the mile, and
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now in the two mile nine minutes twenty six seconds, he's hold the comfortable
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lead there now. So now with the two long distance running events he holds
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the best time and and Tyson Bima also now has the Walking County League and
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the long jump or the lead I should say, with twenty one feet five
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inches, that's you know, you get that kind of athlete that can run
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like that and jump. I mean, if he hits it just right,
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it's no surprise that he's in at twenty one feet and five inches, so
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uh, really really impressive there. Cole Luke's becomes the first high jumper this
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year in Walking County to hit the six foot mark. It did that at
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the at the East And Invitational, So yeah, just some really good things
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there. And then on the girls side, Lil Desler from Seahome has the
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has the best time now in the thirty two hundred meters eleven minutes, sixteen
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seconds. And then there's a bunch of athletes that kind of that kind of
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topped their times or distances Sophia Koch of Bellingham's getting really close to breaking that
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five minute mark. In the sixteen hundred meters she was at five three point
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seven to eight Bellakon and one hundred meter hurdles fifteen point two eight and Tabby
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de Young just keeps putting distance out there. In the shot put, thirty
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nine feet four inches, she could surpass forty feet, which not many girls
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have done in Waking County history. There's only been a handful of them.
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She keeps getting out, she keeps going from like thirty four to thirty six
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to thirty seven, now thirty nine to four, so really really impressive for
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her and Chase Flick Williams. She long jumped over seventeen feet at the Eastern
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Invitational, and I think her personal best is around eighteen, so I know
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she can get there again. But it was I think sixteen eight she beat
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that for this year to seventeen and three in a quarter. Something tells me
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you and I could not throw the shot further than Tappy Diung. I know,
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definitely not. I mean, I don't even know what the weight is
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of that thing, But thirty nine point four, like I mean, I
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might be able to throw a football that far. There's no way I'm throwing
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a shot put that far. No way. Well, it's so weird,
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like you see kind of how they do it. It's like I just want
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to see if I can just throw it like a baseball. I'm just curious
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how far I can throw that, But to do it the way they do
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it, and and she's been doing it a long time, and and it
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just gets she just keeps getting better and better at it. Uh. That
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is Track and Field brought to you by Stafford Insurance. Tyler. Let's move
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on and we'll talk about girls tennis. Everybody had two league matches this week.
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Uh see Home Linden. They remain undefeated as a team. Yeah,
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Uh see Home see Home. They went to and oh but it wasn't the
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normal to and O that they usually do. They beat Squalicum four to three,
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which was just unbelievable, really really close there and uh squalkam kind of
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came to play in that one. Then they beat Anacortus five to two.
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So a lot of these matches that see them have been winning. They've been
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seven to zero and so but they still remain undefeated. But it's it's not
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happening the ways it used to. Lynden Beatlecarver seven zero, Ferndalees seven zero,
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and so they're kind of itching ahead right now, looking a little bit
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cleaner than see them as. The thing about Lindon's team is they're just so
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consistent. I mean, you see the same girls every single time in the
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same order. They're every only thing that really ever changes is the third doubles
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team. You'll see a little mix and match there, but other than that,
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it's the same lineup. You know what to expect. And they've just
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been so dominant this year. Bellingham is now eight and one. They beat
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Mount Vernon seven zero and Sedgar Woollye seven zero, so they're really playing on
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top of their game. Squalk and we talked about them losing to see them
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four to three so close. They beat Burlington four to three, so they're
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seven and two right now. And then and Ferndale Ferdale lost to Burlington five
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to two, lost to Lyndon seven zero, Blaine lost to lake With six
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to one, in Oak Harbor six to one. But really nice to see
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them win a court here and there to Lake with O and oak Caarbor,
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so there is some improvement there, I think in the Oak Harbor one.
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They took a few of their top singles stars and put them in the top
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doubles match to kind of see how that could go. And they won that
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one. So maybe there can move some things around and kind of figure out
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where they can find some success for the postseason. That is girls tennis.
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Let's talk about boys golf and girls golf. Tyler looking at the top scores
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here, anybody knew this week? Yeah, So on the top on the
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boys side, Daniel Robbins squeaks into the to the top ten. He's from
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Squalkum. He's got an average in eighty four point eight. And then on
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the girl's side, Kaya van Reiswick is back in the top ten. She
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dropped out for a little bit and now she's back. She plays at Blaine
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averaging one hundred and thirteen. And and other than that, I mean Thomaston
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Hartalk. He shot like over like a ninety in his first in his first
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round of the year, and ever since then he's shot really good rounds under
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eighty and so his average just keeps gets lower and lower. Now he's fourth
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place with an eighty point four average. Thomasin Hartalk from else So you know,
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he just had a rough week that first week, but ever since then
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he's been among you know, the top scorers and moving up the up the
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charts here, going from seventh place to fourth place. Really impressive there.
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And then on the girl's side, Job Jensen had a really good round.
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She moved from tenth to seventh now, averaging one eleven. A lot of
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the other players are kind of still in that in that same you know,
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kind of where we've seen him and stuff like that. But like now with
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them already playing five or six weeks of golf, you shoot something that's even
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like, you know, eight or nine strokes off your average, it only
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changes by like one stroke, you know, because they've played so much now,
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And it's gonna be really interesting once, you know, because the weather's
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gonna get better, you can see a lot of better scores and as soon
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as you know, districts and stuff like that rolls around, it's gonna be
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really cool. I went to an event earlier this week at the bell Am
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Golf and Country Club and it was it wasn't it didn't count as like the
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league stuff, but they just got a lot of walking county teams together and
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you had to qualify for it stuff like that. And it was really cool
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event because it was the only one where they they really do it up where
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everybody you know, you you know, there's like tea times. It's not
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a shotgun starts a tea time at the first hole and then and the guy's
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announcing, you know, now up is you know Baylor Larabee Ferndale High School
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and you get the you get the clapping. I mean it was it was
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really like cool, like they do, they really do it up. And
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uh so that was fun to be at. You know, I was there
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for a little bit, kind of caught a few different groupings in the first
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tea, get some pictures taken, and uh and just to see these kids'
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faces because I've read the name so many times. Yeah, and then to
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see them close up and see them from different angles and to see them tee
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off on that first hole, it just looks really cool. And and it
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was a nice day and and uh, yeah, it was fun. It
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was It was really cool to be out there. Yeah, that is pretty
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cool. I uh, I've never been to a high school golf event at
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all. Wow, that's kind of surprising. Actually, Oh, I've only
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been to probably one or two soccer matches. Yeah. Yeah, And actually
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the first softball stuff I even went to was probably this year. Oh wow,
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yeah, it's it's incredible. Man. The softball is such a fast
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game. It's you know, it's small, like you look at you start
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looking at like, you know, when you get that grounder, you got
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to throw them out fast because it's so it's from you know, it's everything's
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so tight, it's so close proximity. Everything is just fast. It's just
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moving fast. And you get two really good teams playing, and holy cow,
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it can get pretty intense, especially with two really good pitchers. You
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know, it's crazy. The other day, I was our softball team bought
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a speaker and they wanted to set it up with a mic and everything,
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and so I went out and tried to figure it out for him. And
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I was watching a little bit of batting practice. Yeah, and they had
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like like the coach was standing like no joke, like eight feet from the
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home plate, Like it was crazy. Yeah, and they just kind of
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just yeah, just like loft in it underhand. And I get that it's
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just batting practice, but it was like one out of every four hits was
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was a homer. I mean, they were absolutely crushing it. I was
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like, whoa like, like I didn't, I mean, and some of
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them were moonshots, like yeah, balls where you just went, oh my
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goodness, like she absolutely crushed it, like it was I don't know,
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it was crazy. Yeah. So that's boys and girls golf. Tyler,
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Lots of soccer stuff going on over there at the North County Alliance. Yeah,
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Tyler, let's see here, we got what see home plays to a
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tie with Mount Vernon. Lennon Christian hasn't lost a game in a month now,
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they're just on fire. And Mount Baker scores its first goals of the
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season. Yeah, it was. It was kind of a crazy week.
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I went to six games this week. Wow soccer wise, Yeah, it's
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it's it works out so well because a lot of teams play late, like
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seven pm, and so once I've wrapped up at a fast pitch game or
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a baseball game or track me to whatever, I just pop on over to
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whatever soccer game I'm going to and then and check it out for a while,
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takes pictures, and then and then head home. So I was out
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at a bunch of different games. But yeah, see hoo, I'm playing
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to a tie with Mount Vernon. That was awesome to see. That was
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That was Friday. Uh, that was so incredible. I was never so
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enthralled in watching thirty straight minutes of soccer where there was no oring. You
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know, I never thought that I would say that, Like it was.
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These these two teams are so good, and it was just like, as
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I'm because I'm really learning about I mean, I'm seriously learning about the game.
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I did not know hardly anything about soccer. You know, Yeah,
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everybody knows the you know, the mechanical, the basics, like what you
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have to do to win whatever, but like the a lot of the intricacies
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and why you're and like the spacing That's been the big thing that as I'm
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as I step back and look at it, you start to really see how
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you set things up and and how you and it's like spacing, like there's
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a lot of spacing and you know hockey and basketball keeping. Yeah, yeah,
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and it's it's really interesting to see that, especially you see two good
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teams like see them and Mount Vernon. Uh, that ended up in a
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one to one tie. That was that was just an incredible game. But
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yeah, like LC they're just they're just on a roll. They're playing really
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well. They've had they had they've had a few ties. They had a
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scoreless tie later in the week. But yeah, it's just been it's just
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been crazy. Yeah. That was against Lakewood where I think Lindy Christian even
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had like ten plus shots on goal. I got the text from the Elsie
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coaches saying, you know, they're the Lakewood goalie was just possessed like he
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was he was just out of his mind, uh you know, or he
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was what are they say in hockey, was on his head or what do
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they say, stood on his head? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, and
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so sometimes that that just happened. I mean, Meridians scored seven on Lakewood
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earlier in the year, so I was kind of expecting something Elsie, you
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know, was gonna do pretty well. When I got that zero zero score,
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I was kind of shocked, but like he said that, you know,
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Goalie was just having one of those crazy games. Uh, Mount Baker
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Knuksack Valley that was on YouTube, so I got to watch that one.
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That was crazy because Mount Baker hadn't scored a goal all year and they scored
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the first goal of the game. There everyone's going nuts. Else or Knuksack
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scores the next two and then Baker scores the last one and it was an
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eighth grader that scored. Oh yeah, so uh pretty pretty incredible. And
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they had an eighth grader in goal too, and it was because their normal
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goalie was injured, so maybe they found something that kind of works and uh
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and got their first tie of the year. So yeah, just some incredible,
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incredible games, you know. I went and saw a Squalic and beat
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Ferndale three to two. That was a really good game. I saw Meridian
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overnooks like Valley four nothing. I also saw Meridian over Blaine three nothing,
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so Mari I got some good mojo with them. I think, uh this
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week, but yeah, just an incredible week of of soccer with you start
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to really start to see the separation. I mean, Meridian beating Blaine three
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nothing that kind of stood out at me because they I don't believe they tied
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the last time they played each other, and that was at Blaine and then
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this one was at Meridian. Both teams have really good records this year and
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Meridian kind of took it to them. Uh so that that really stood out
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to me and and excited for that for that one A district playoffs kind of
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see how that goes. I think it'll be played out at Blaine, but
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the two way right now is ridiculous obviously still with Sea Home, Squallkam and
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Bellingham kinda kind of you know the top of that and to see how that'll
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all go because I don't know exactly how many teams from district can go to
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state in two A, so they're all state worthy teams. But we'll just
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see how it goes. And you never know, Archbishop could be great,
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Like there could be some teams that will come up and play and you're like,
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oh yeah, this this team's always awesome. You're like, holy cow,
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this is a loaded district bracket here, and you never know so,
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especially when it's a sport that's really really new to me. I really don't
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know who the powerhouses are around the state or even just you know, the
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next district down. I have no idea, so it'll be it'll be really
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interesting to see how it goes. But in the month of May, Tyler,
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let's talk leading scorers here who, by the way, also brought to
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you by North County Alliance FC and CEALLIANCEFC dot Com. I'm looking at over
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here, Tyler. There is some decent movement here, including looks like our
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guy Jude Dekker here had himself quite the week. Huh Yeah, he had
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another five goal week. Wow. So that's two of them in a row,
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which really shot him up the leader board here, going from tenth place
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to fifth place now with twelve goals on the season. Really really had had
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a good week. Judash Strait had a couple of goals to now tie with
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Simon Agner for the top spot with they each have fifteen goals on the year.
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Noah Allen is just consistent as all get out, really really good.
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Scored that scored a goal against Bellingham. I was. I was there for
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that. I was so excited to be to be in witness of the Seaholme
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Bellingham matchup. Really really good game. You're talking too, of the top
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teams in Walking County. That was a lot of fun. Yeah, and
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then you know got you know Katat and Fasan. He's just don't lingering around,
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He's just consistent every week scoring a goal here there, always staying in
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that top five kind of range. Tarren Burks did it again, you know,
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to get into the double digit now with ten goals. So it's it's
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just really start to see who some of these guys are. And you kind
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of learned that like just scoring goals that's not you know, that's they're just
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in the right position for that. There's some really good defenders out there and
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different there are different players that I'm really learning about. I don't think i'd
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be I'm definitely not knowledgeable enough to make a top fifty list this year.
23:23
And you know that might make some people go, oh, man, that's
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too bad, but it I just I just really don't know. I would
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really need a lot of help from coaches and stuff like that. But man,
23:34
it's just you start to see some really good athletes out there, some
23:37
of guy like names that I've known because maybe they follow Walkom preps or I've
23:42
gotten a message from a few of them over the years saying, hey,
23:45
are you ever going to do soccer? I'm like, if I have the
23:47
time, I have the time. Now. It's been great and it's been
23:51
so cool to see these athletes over and over again on a weekly basis,
23:53
going to see them live and do their thing. You know, Tyler,
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when you start talking about doing a top fifty, tell me this are the
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are the coaches like, are they locked in orre you getting information from everybody?
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Or how? Oh? Yeah? Working? Yeah, everything's been,
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everything's been pretty good. It's a I have phone numbers for most of the
24:17
coaches. Yeah, because I mean, I'm sure there's a way we could
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come up with a voting system, you know what I mean to where we
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could put together a top fifty or maybe even just just a top twenty five.
24:27
Yeah. Maybe, I mean it'd be it. It just be it'd
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be interesting to see because you know, like a player like Satchel Craig at
24:36
Bellingham, like he's like he's a back center player, you know, Yeah,
24:41
he's never going to score any goals. But he's really good defensively.
24:45
It kind of kind of you know, being that wall in front of the
24:48
goalie. Really athletic, about six feet tall, you know, he plays
24:52
on the basketball team, never runs out of gas. And it's like,
24:55
I don't, I wouldn't. You know, how do you how do you
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get it? But so, Tyler, this is so let's see, how
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do I explain this? I mean, if it's by the coaches, yeah,
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no, that's what I'm saying. I think I think the coaches team,
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they you just look at the all league team because that's the coaches anyways.
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So well, yeah, but when the All league well yeah, I
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mean that that would include you know, Mount Vernon and Burlington Lake. Yeah,
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but that's where I think what you do is you just give each coach
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ten votes on any ten players that are not on their team, you know,
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and it's like, hey, you just need to yeah, you just
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need to pick who are the top ten players in the county, you know,
25:32
because you're going to get different things, and you know, sure,
25:33
and and have them rank them, you know, one through ten and obviously
25:37
one is worth ten points, and you know, you kind of do a
25:41
thing there because and you let them know it's not just about goals, it's
25:44
about just players, because oh yeah, well they would know better than I.
25:47
I mean, yeah, I think well because if you were, if
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you were to do it in hockey, Zadan o'chara in his prime would not
25:53
have gotten very many votes for you know, for for points, because he
25:57
didn't score a ton of points. But he won the Norris Trophy, which
26:02
is for the best defenseman in the league. So everybody knows that he was
26:07
a top ten player during his heyday, you know what I mean. So
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I don't know, I think that's something we could maybe try to pull off.
26:12
But Tyler, you mentioned the district and some of the other teams,
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and obviously who knows what this actually means. But according to the wiaa's rankings
26:25
RPI rankings, again this is just computer based, the only teams from District
26:30
one in the top ten are Bellingham and Seahom. Okay, that's it.
26:37
Squall, Come's not in there anymore. No, squal Comb is not on
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there. Wow. Now, Foster is a District two, that's you know
26:45
down there by the airport, Fife, Franklin, Pierce, North Kitsap all
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three in the in the in District three and then Pullman, which one kind
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of blows away a little bit maybe out of the way of everybody. Yeah,
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like wait, although I guess it does kind of make sense because it
27:04
is a college town, so there's probably a lot of kids that grew up
27:07
in you know, bigger city or something like that. But but yeah,
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that's kind of just a look there. And let's see what that's all we
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got for soccer. Yeah, yes, oh that's right, because we do
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I'm looking over the standings here and I'll tell you what the the three teams
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at the top are premium teams here. Blaine dropped its first conference game,
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but then they win the next four. Lyndon lost three games this week.
28:07
I mean, what is going on there? Strange? Yeah, well there
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it was kind of a complete opposite for both those teams. Blaine played Sidrow
28:15
Woollie. I was at that game on Monday. Siegdrow's loaded. I mean
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they are, they are really really good and they have a star pitcher,
28:22
Cassandra Gonzalez really really wanted to see this matchup, sied Drow versus Blane.
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And you know, it was zero zero for a while. Sidro puts up
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a run. Kind of happened to the game. I think it was the
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fourth, and then with a couple outs and some runners on, there was
28:38
an air in the outfield which kind of opened out the door for some more
28:41
runs. I mean, you know, you get two outs and you hit
28:44
a fly ball to the outfield and you know, run on anything, run
28:48
on contact because it's two outs, and all of a sudden the balls dropped
28:51
and then a couple of runs will score on that because they get a head
28:52
start and and so that was well not a head start, but you know
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what I mean, like they're running right. Yeah, So so that kind
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of that kind of did it. And the Gonzalez pitched the no hitter against
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Blaine. I mean, she is really really tough to handle. But they
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bounced back and the next day they got to go travel to London and play.
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So that was like, man, that is tough. You play Sidrow
29:18
and Linden back to back. We kind of talked about it last week about
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you know, this was going to be happening for Blaine and and that was
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a crazy game. I was there for that one. It was two to
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two for a while, and then Blaine hit back to back home runs,
29:34
a two run shot and then a solo and that kind of did in the
29:38
Lions. So and then it kind of switched from there. Blaine went on
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to win throughout the week after that. They beat They beat Ferndale seventeen to
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three, and then they beat Coopville four to one and then l C four
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to one, where Lindon after they dropped that game, they ended up playing
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well. They ended up they oh yeah, they lost to play, but
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then they beat Lyndon Christian but then they lost a Cedar Crest by one,
30:06
and then they lost to Lake Washington by two, so a couple of non
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conference games. Linden likes to schedule pretty tough. I mean that's you know,
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there's there make no bones about that, but you know it's uh,
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it might be a Linden team that's a little bit down from years past.
30:22
There's still a ton of talent on it, but maybe they're just not as
30:26
deep as they usually are. It's just weird to see them lose three games
30:29
in a week. It just doesn't doesn't happen very often. There's a big
30:33
there's a big jam in the middle there with a bunch of teams with three
30:37
and five in conference with LC Meridian, Ferndale, Nuksack. Uh. You
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know I saw this week. I saw Ferndale and Nuksack play each other.
30:45
Ferndale got him. I think it was like ten to seven. Uh,
30:48
you know, really really good uh battle there. It was really close,
30:52
a lot of lead changes, stuff like that. Then Nuksack Valley went and
30:56
took care of Sea home. It was I thought that was gonna be a
30:59
lot closer game. But knoksac Thali can really get hot with the bats.
31:02
That happened and got them pretty good there. Final was let's see here twenty
31:07
one to four. So yeah, I mean it was that was that kind
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of jumped off. I didn't really expect that Mount Baker took care of Squalicum.
31:15
Kind of what was expected. They have Mount Baker was able to get
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I think they got four different pitchers into that game without using their ace.
31:25
So that was kind of a cool thing for them to be able to kind
31:27
of use a little bit of all their pitchers to give them each an inning
31:30
or two and just kind of get used to thinking. I felt so bad
31:34
because I was like, I know Squalicums on the other side, going,
31:37
can we just trade for one of them please? Because right now pitching has
31:41
been their big bugaboo. They just they keep throwing different girls out there,
31:45
just try to throw strikes, and it's been a it's been tough. They're
31:48
really young and they can put the bat on the ball a little bit,
31:51
but it's just giving up you know, too many you know, walks and
31:53
stuff like that. So, uh, it's gonna be a rough year for
31:56
them. But uh like, like like I said, they are so young.
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If they if they get a picture that's coming through the ranks soon,
32:02
that could they could turn things around really really quickly, really good coaching staff
32:07
with Amy Anderson and Jesse Baxter and them, they'll they'll be okay, uh
32:12
but yeah, fast but Baker after that game, they they hosted Lakewood on
32:15
Friday and they and they dropped that one six to two. That was a
32:20
really really yeah. I knew that was going to be a really close game.
32:23
I meant to make it out to that, but a few things kind
32:27
of happened and and but you know it's only baker second loss of the year,
32:30
second second conference loss as well, Baker still has to play Blaine and
32:36
Linden. You're talking about those top teams up there, so you know that's
32:39
gonna be we'll we'll, we'll see what happens. And again, like you
32:44
said, with Blayine and Mount Baker both at the top there, you know
32:46
we've talked about it at nauseum, but only one team is going to be
32:52
able to advance from districts to state and Blaine and Baker are going to be
32:54
in that and Linden Christian is not that far behind. Blaine only beat them
33:00
four to one, Baker only beat them four to two, So that tells
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you that Lenny Christian is right there. NUKXAC Balley can put up points.
33:07
Yeah, I mean they could score runs very, very easily. Meridians scored
33:10
twenty six runs in a game this week, so all these teams have the
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ability to put up runs. So it's gonna be a it's gonna be a
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really interesting last few weeks. Twenty six runs in a game is nuts.
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Com. Tyler Seehome lost all three games by a single run this week.
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Knicksac Valley moved past Blaine in the one A rankings after defeating them, and
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Ferndale picked up three wins this week. Good good on the Golden Eagles over
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there. Yeah, they're really starting to pick it up. I mean they
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right off the bat earlier in the week or early on in the week.
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On Tuesday, they played against Bellingham. Bellingham coming off that big win against
34:19
Lyndon, I thought, man, this is going to be I think Bellingham
34:22
will probably kind of take care of business here. Ferndale beats some twelve zero,
34:25
so that was a big that kind of that kind of launched them into
34:30
the week, which was huge for them. They played a really good Sizerew
34:34
Woolie team and got bet in that one, but for to four to zero.
34:37
It was you know, it's just kind of the way that it goes.
34:40
But then they came back they beat Baker twelve to six. And then
34:45
uh, then they played lynn Wood on Saturday, and uh, that was
34:50
a game I was at for a little while and it wasn't wasn't looking good.
34:53
I mean, the Royals led six to one after two winnings and but
34:58
Ferndale was able to tie the game a few few innings later, and Royals
35:01
took a thirteen to eleven lead go at halfway through the seventh innings. So
35:06
going into the bottom of the seventh, Ferndale needed to score three runs.
35:08
They did that when Tallon bung Guard hit a bases loaded double the center field
35:14
which scored two runs. So they had scored a run earlier in the inning
35:16
and then bung Guard hit that double to to win the game walk off style.
35:21
There was a lot of like major games this week that were just kind
35:23
of kind of crazy. You mentioned Sea Home losing three games by one run.
35:28
Two of them were walk off losses, which is just and they were
35:31
and they were back to backs. One of them was to Bellingham, you
35:35
know, their their city rival, but been for so long. That went
35:38
ten innings. Jake Jake Trust hit a bases loaded single in the bottom of
35:43
the tenth to score Kai Nelson. That gave Bellingham the three to two win.
35:46
And then a day later they play against Burlington and Burlington wins two to
35:52
one. In that one. Yeah, it was just it was just a
35:57
rough one there for Seal Seem has been playing so well. They also lost
36:00
to Oak Harbor three to two. So I tell you it's it's they are
36:07
the best three and thirteen team I've ever seen. Like they they are really
36:12
good. They just they always just come up a little bit short. Uh.
36:15
Usually you see a team that's three and thirteen and and they're getting ten
36:17
runs left and right. That has not been the case for the Mariners this
36:21
year. Blaine has been on a little bit of a slide recently. I
36:23
saw them play against Nukxack Valley and Noksack got him and Blaine threw their ace
36:29
Karen Markson and Nuksack Valley dotted him up a little bit early on. Evan
36:32
Brown, Joey Brown's younger brother, he just just just a sophomore. He
36:37
hit a home run that came one pitch after Cameron Bauman. I always say
36:44
Cameron Bouman Colebamban hit a double to the to the left field as well.
36:47
So it was like on back to back pitches and and and Nuksack Valley,
36:52
Like we've been talking about them, they they can really score some runs,
36:57
hit the ball and and just do the good things. They pointed out to
37:01
me too in between innings. We talked about this the podcast Wow, like
37:06
all the players go out there and play catch for fast pitch in the outfield.
37:09
The Knoksack Valley Baseball does that really? So yeah, Joel pointed to
37:16
he goes look at that, and I was like, oh okay. And
37:21
so he heard the podcast and he was like, we do it too,
37:22
and I was like, that's awesome. But wait, have they always been
37:25
doing that or did we maybe did we kind of push it to him?
37:29
I don't know, because I think I went to a home game that had
37:32
earlier this year against Meridian and I didn't see them doing that, So I
37:36
don't know. I maybe maybe they're just doing it for our benefit. I'm
37:40
not I'm not too sure. They said, hey, hey, Tyler's here,
37:44
we got to go out and warm everybody up in between innings. Yeah,
37:46
just just do it for at least one inning and make sure that he
37:50
sees it. But I tell you find And then they played Lakewood and beat
37:53
him in a crazy game eleven to ten tons of lead changes. There's another.
38:00
It was another walk off win, and it was Evan Brown again.
38:04
It was a deep fly balls, a sacrifice fly scored Casey Newton. Uh
38:08
so, yeah, nooksac Valley. I tell you what I mean. In
38:13
years past, you know they've you'd always see the talent, and like coach
38:17
twist Blaer said, he goes, we can't say that we're young anymore.
38:21
We just can't use that excuse. And and now I think they could say
38:23
that they're you know, they're not. I wouldn't say that they're younger.
38:27
I wouldn't say that they're old, but they're experienced. They just have a
38:30
lot of firsty experienced and and they're putting up a ton of hits, scoring
38:34
a ton of runs. You know, Bellingham had got you know, after
38:37
they beat they got beat by Ferndale, they came back and and if they
38:42
did some good things, beating Sea Home three to two on that walk off
38:45
ten inning game, beating Lyndon Christian eleven and nine. Linden Christian's got a
38:49
really good offense as well. Uh, Austin Engels hit his third home run
38:52
of the year in that game. He's he's kind of looking to be one
38:55
of those you know, top you know, top of the line, looking
39:00
at that top fifty list going hey, uh, you know, he's he's
39:04
looking really really good offensive wise. I mean, he's still hovering over five
39:07
hundred for the season, wow, batting average wise, just and and he's
39:10
not doing it just you know, spraining the ball here and there. I
39:13
think he's leading leading the league in doubles, home runs, RBI stuff like
39:16
that too, so or at least leading Walking County. So Lindy Christian Is,
39:21
you know, they they have some good things going offensive offensive wise,
39:24
and the big matchup we were all waiting for Lennon against Meridian. I had
39:29
my fingers crossed it to be Lane Simonson against Joan Ossi. Oussi did not
39:31
pitch this week again, and Simonson pitched earlier in the week against uh boy
39:39
who was that against That was against Sieddro Woolly and and so and see Cedro
39:46
Woolly got them an extra innings in that one, five to four. So
39:50
Simonson pitched to the to the to the pitch count, you know, through
39:54
seven innings and struck out eight batters and took the no decision. Uh but
39:59
yeah, just some really really good baseball games this week, up and down
40:02
by a lot of teams. Meridian beating Burlington, Linden beating Nukxack Valley four
40:07
to one, and that told me a lot about Nuksak. Again, I
40:09
think they even out hit Linden in that game. So, like like I
40:13
said earlier, they've been scoring runs. So yeah, just you look at
40:17
a lot of these records and so many of them are kind of that jump
40:21
juggled up in that mid range spot. There. But there's been some really
40:24
good baseball and and teams that are improving a lot, like like Ferndale winning
40:30
three there this week and see them right on the precipice of winning these games.
40:35
But it's just just that one extra thing isn't happening. Lindon is still
40:38
rolling their thirteen and four on the year, and and Els and Meridia.
40:43
I mean, it's it's been a fun year. It's been a fun year
40:45
a baseball and it's it's going too fast, man, Yeah, it really
40:50
is. I mean yeah, I don't know if you guys are the same
40:52
up there, but we are into our final week down here. I think
40:55
there's two more weeks. Yeah, I think we have Senior Night this Friday.
41:00
Actually wow. Yeah, I've been to a few senior nights for soccer,
41:05
but a couple of them. Oh yeah, It's just it's crazy,
41:07
like it's like really like already it's it jumps on you man. I was
41:12
thinking the same thing. I got the like the hey, here's all the
41:15
information to read on Senior Night, and I was like, oh, yeah,
41:20
that's this week, isn't it this Friday? Like Senior Night? Is
41:22
this where like people sixty five and older get in for free or yeah,
41:24
or like die Hard night. Anybody's last time the Indians won a Fenish?
41:30
Yeah, exactly, Tyler. That is baseball again. The daily recaps brought
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41:44
on the fast pitch side, who is the no sponsor yet fast Pitch a
41:46
player of the week. This was probably the toughest decision I've had all year
41:52
for a player of the week. Uh. Katie Prangeman of Meridian was outstanding.
42:00
Tons of home runs, pitched every inning. She's deserving. Elena Dykstra,
42:06
catcher from Nuksack Valley, she hit a grand slam, did create awesome
42:09
things offensively. She was deserving. But when I looked at what Emerson Baker
42:15
did for Blaine, she was out dueled in that first game against Sidro by
42:21
someone who's going to be, you know, a D one pitcher. And
42:27
after that she dialed she you know, she got dialed in. She beats
42:30
Lyndon and you know, it just kind of goes from there. She struck
42:35
out sixteen batters against Lennon Christian, which is really impressive because it wasn't like
42:40
they blew them out. I mean that was a four to one game,
42:45
and so and she did some good things offensively as well. So Blaine senior
42:49
Emerson Baker is the fast pitched Player of the Week. On the baseball side,
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Baseball Player of the Week. Well, again, this was a tough one
43:19
too. There was a lot of names that kind of popped up here and
43:22
there. You know. I was like Jake Trust he had the you know,
43:28
game winning hit extra innings. I thought Casey Newton had a really good
43:30
week for Knicksac Valley. So did Evan Brown h with the you know,
43:35
his first guard varsity career home run. Austin Engels is still just just hitting
43:40
a ton, I mean, you know, multiple hits every single game.
43:45
But I really think with Ferndale's getting kind of getting launched this week was really
43:50
really big. I thought Fenton Bassek, who struck out five batters h pitching
43:54
just a one hitter, did really well. And but when I really dial
44:00
in and look at it, I thought Talent bun Guard had an awesome week,
44:02
especially to capping it off with that game against Linnwood. He gets the
44:07
game winning hit, driving in two runs. He drove in six runs in
44:10
that game. Also was a triple shy at the cycle in that game,
44:15
and he also came in and pitched the final inning earlier, so he ends
44:20
up getting the win in that game. He doesn't pitch very often, It's
44:22
only throwing like two winnings all year. So he came, I mean,
44:25
you play four baseball games in a week, you got you by the end
44:29
of the week, you're just looking for an arm right to throw an ending
44:32
or two. And this one with a lot of high scoring and pitchers being
44:36
used, he had to come in and throw that final inning get taken out
44:38
of that shortstop position. So really impressed by him to do that, secure
44:44
the win and then hit the game winning hit really really really really cool.
44:50
Just to junior talent bun Guard and he hit his second home run, his
44:53
second Saturday in a row home run. So this is something about him playing
44:59
on Saturdays, which you know, might be a true thing in a couple
45:01
of years for the football field. So we'll see. But that's a really
45:06
really good week for him. Talent bunng Guard, Ferndale Junior the SIG's Funeral
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and Cremation Services Baseball Player of the Week. And as we've said before,
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North County Alliance FC is sponsoring everything having to do with soccer, so they
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sponsor the soccer players of the week. You can find them online at ncalliancefc
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dot com. Tyler who is the North County Alliance FC Boys soccer Player of
45:28
the week, Well, it could be really easy to give it to Jude
45:30
Decker again, scored five goals. Again. It was you know, it
45:35
was two games back to back, both against Mount Baker, who's, you
45:38
know, a very young, struggling team, so it'd be you know,
45:42
it's kind of hard to look at that and go, well, you know,
45:44
it'd be tough. He just won it. Last week. I was
45:46
looking around, I was trying to really go to the memory banks if saw
45:50
what did I see in person? What impressed me with an all around game,
45:53
And I really thought Noah Allen at Seaholme, who's had a really kind
45:58
of under the radar year. Although the team has been great, they just
46:02
they've had a lot of different guys do some good things. But I thought
46:06
he had an awesome week just watching him with ball control. He had a
46:12
few moves where you hear the crowd kind of go whoo ah, you know,
46:15
and he did score some goals as well, So did a lot of
46:20
good things. Played against really good competition, playing against Bellingham, playing against
46:23
Mount Vernon and doing some good things. So Noah Allen of Seahome is your
46:28
North County Alliance FC Boys soccer player of the week. Those are the players
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of the week. Tyler. Let's take a look ahead at next week,
46:35
and well, I know on the girl's side there was something really big that
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we've been waiting for. But let's start with the boys here. And what
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do you got for looking ahead? What are you looking forward to this week?
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There's a handful of things soccer wise, you think, you know,
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tonight at seven o'clock Sea home at Squalcum. That's gonna be another awesome match,
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you know. Last Monday, it was Sea Home at Bellingham that was
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kind of the one to go to. This one's gonna be really good,
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CEO Matt Squalkum. When you look at start looking at common opponents. You
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know, Squalicum lost to Mount Vernon by one and then and See Home tied
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with them one to one, so you can expect a pretty good matchup here.
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Uh you know, I mean, Simon Agner fifteen goals on the year
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is incredible. Seehome is you know, they haven't been beaten yet, only
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suffered the one tie that was against Mount Vernon. Like we said, so
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this is gonna be a really really good matchup. I'm sure a ton of
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these kids know each other from playing club soccer and stuff like that. So
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this is this is going to be a really incredible game. And that like
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that Squalicum field that they play on when the sun's going down, and that's
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a lot of people sitting on the hill and it's a really great atmosphere to
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watch a soccer game. And and I'm just excited to be able to go
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there and see it. And what about on the girls side, what do
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you got over there? Oh? Well? Also on the boys, Sorry,
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the baseball game on Wednesday. I was looking a lot of these different
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there's there's a you know, it seems like this week we had a lot
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of walkin county versus walking county, and there's not as many this upcoming week.
48:07
And uh, but I'm really intrigued by the Knooksack Valley playing at Bellingham
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about that game Wednesday night at six thirty baseball, because I've said in years
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past that was kind of the game where both teams said, hey, this
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is where we can get our w is this one And that's not the case
48:23
anymore. Both these teams are been doing some awesome things. I mean,
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Bellingham beat Linden, they beat Lyndon Christian, you know, Knooksack beat Blaine.
48:31
I mean these this is things are starting to happen with both of these
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teams, and they're really on the rise right now, and they're gonna meet
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each other. It's gonna be a night game under the lights. I this
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is gonna be an awesome one. This is I think baseball wise, this
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is gonna be the one to see on the girls side. My goodness,
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you're right. We've been talking about this for a long time. It's gonna
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all come to a head. Wednesday at four thirty. It's been delayed once,
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it was rained out once. Please don't rain on Wednesday. This has
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to happen. Linden at Sea Hoome Tennis, four thirty, both teams undefeated.
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I am so pumped. I know what Linden's I know who's gonna play
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for Linden. I don't know who's gonna play for Seal them. There's a
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lot of jockeying around stuff like that. I'm really curious if they're gonna look
49:15
at matchups and try to find the best things that they can do in order
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to do that. Linden is so good, especially in those doubles, those
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first two doubles units I I you bet I will be there. I'm so
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excited for this one because this is this is this is some serious stuff.
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And what's so cool is I've been to a few of them now see home,
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and I've become friendly with the coach. They let me like go inside
49:38
the gate and take pictures. Uh So that's and that's part of it,
49:44
right, getting out there, getting known enough to where they allow you to
49:49
do more act, you know, get more access and stuff like that.
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I don't want to be I don't want to take away. You know,
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I don't want to get in the way. I don't want to know,
49:57
distract anybody. But if I can get in there and take really good pick
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and be really close to the action, that's fantastic. And I'm really excited
50:05
to be a part of this one and see it. That's gonna be a
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great one. And then on the fast pitch side, it might not be
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you know, that close of a game, but I can guarantee there will
50:15
be some runs scored. Nuksack Valley at Mount Baker on Friday at four point
50:20
thirty last year when they played each other, I think there was thirty nine
50:23
runs scored. So I would expect some big time fireworks. Again, both
50:30
have both teams have some big time sluggers Averra Jeretzky, Gracie Zender, you
50:36
know, Kennedy Rathchin and on the knucksack side, Laney Kimball and Shelby Mason
50:42
and Elena Dykstra and Gracie Rutgers. And I mean there's there's some really good
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offensive players in this game. And and I would expect to, you know,
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see a lot of runs scored and and and two coaches that have been
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doing it a long time with Tom Harmon at Nuksack Valley. I think he's
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been the softball coach at Nuksack Valley since the mid eighties, I want to
51:06
say, eighty five eighty six, so you know he's and then when they
51:09
took over and started doing fast pitchitch around two thousand, so he's been the
51:14
coaching every single fast pitch team they've ever had in school history. And of
51:17
course, you know coach Leap at Mount Baker has seen it all as well.
51:21
So and they're both athletic directors, so there's a lot of you know,
51:23
there's a lot of meetings between these two. They know each other really
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well. I think it's gonna be a really good game out at Deming Friday
51:30
night at four thirty. I hate to be the bearer of bad news,
51:32
Tyler, Oh they get something wrong. No, oh, no, you
51:37
got it all right. Unfortunately, as of right now, the weather forecast
51:42
says it's going to rain most of the day on Wednesday and on tennis.
51:47
I mean it's not like, oh there's a little bit of rain on the
51:51
cour or if there's rain on the court, it's not happening because it's a
51:52
fig time safety thing. And you can't play tennis in the rain. So
51:57
oh dude. Yeah, well, now it say it says showers in the
52:00
morning, cloudy in the afternoon, So I don't know how long it takes
52:06
to dry out. I don't know, you know what I mean, I
52:07
don't know how that works. But then it also says increasing clouds with showers
52:13
throughout the night. I mean, and then here's the worst part. Showers
52:15
on Thursday, showers on Friday, showers on Saturday, showers on Sunday,
52:20
Monday, Tuesday. I mean, it says there's gonna be showers all the
52:22
way up until Saturday, the fourth, is what it says. Yeah,
52:29
well, hello Washington, Yeah we might never see that game happen. Oh
52:34
man, yeah, or match, I guess. But yeah, yeah,
52:37
Now, granted, who knows. Maybe Randy Small's listened to this right now
52:40
and he's gonna chime in and go, do you know what, boys,
52:43
We're clear, it looks good, looks good. Get the game on.
52:46
Here we go, let's do it. Absolutely we got anything else, Tyler,
52:51
We've done. I do want to mention really quickly, my intern,
52:55
Michayla Sparks, has just been unbelievable. Yeah, these last couple of years.
52:59
She's graduating pretty soon and she won't be able to help walk the preps,
53:04
uh, you know, once she graduates and goes off to college and
53:07
stuff like that. But I just want to give her a shout out because
53:09
she's been so just above and beyond anything I could have expected when we met,
53:15
you know, two years ago, and she expressed an interest in doing
53:19
this. A great writer, awesome photographer, even a better human being.
53:24
I mean, she's just so dedicated, loves what she does, really really
53:30
good at it. She's I mean, she has bailed me out. I
53:32
mean, she traveled to Sila, you know, to see Lindon play that
53:37
doubleheader down at Ceila. I mean, it's just it's unbelievable. You know,
53:40
she gave me kind of a care package for my birthday and this I'm
53:45
looking at her right now, is this really cool mug that says my favorite
53:49
intern gave me this mug And is that like the world's best boss, right
53:53
And it's just it's awesome. I mean, she's she is. She's really
53:58
set the standard pretty high for you know, if someone else wants to come
54:01
and help walk preps coming up. But I do want to encourage students.
54:07
Anybody who loves to take pictures or wants to be a part of it and
54:10
help out, please reach out to me, because the biggest thing is taking
54:15
pictures. I mean, if you you know, if you if you have
54:19
an interest in photography at all, and you know you can be featured on
54:23
walking Preps almost daily, if you wanted to going out to games taking pictures,
54:29
it would really help me out. And and she's going to be really
54:32
really hard to replace, but I know there's people out there that would love
54:37
to help out and do what they can, so so just kind of keep
54:40
that in mind. But Mikayla, thank you so much for your dedication.
54:44
I know we got a few more weeks left, but it's just it's just
54:47
been a huge, huge impact for me because she's bailed me out on a
54:52
few things, and and you know, she's going to a game like hey,
54:55
they're playing softball, Like right right over the you know, on the
55:00
other side of the fence there's a softball game. Can you take pictures there
55:02
too? And she has never said no to anything. She's always like yep,
55:06
absolutely and just really really cool. And I just want to think and
55:09
think her parents too, because you know, they and for years, you
55:15
know, they had to drive her out and they and they love it.
55:16
They both have enjoyed doing it. And yeah, and it's really really cool.
55:21
And even though her dad gets mistaken for me at times, there's been
55:23
multiple times where he's wearing his Walking Preps hoodie and his Walking Preps hat and
55:29
he's wearing glasses and then some of the clump to him say hey, I
55:30
just love everything that you do. He always hes like, sorry, but
55:37
I have nothing to do. You know, you know what you should do
55:39
or I guess we should have done. We should have got him in shure
55:42
that says I'm not Tyler Anderson. Oh my goodness, he would just get
55:45
a kick out of that. That'd be hilarious. But yeah, the very
55:49
very first picture ever on Walking Prep spotted was a picture of him, so
55:53
you know, and there was a new picture this week of me chatting with
55:57
coach LEPs So at the game at Squalkum from high school. Yeah, so
56:04
that was that was wrong left from Mount Bigger High School. I'm like thinking
56:07
about it because I I remember us talking pregame and I'm trying to remember who
56:13
was sitting from that angle so I could figure out who took the picture.
56:15
But you know, I've just stopped asking those questions and I just let it
56:19
happen. So uh yeah, So that's that's still going on. But what
56:22
a what a great week, and and this is gonna be another fun week
56:27
coming up. Kind of makes me wonder is the person uh doing watcom preps
56:30
spotted or is the person taking pictures from Mount Bigger High School? You just
56:36
never know? Yeah, never. I know. I don't because I know
56:39
that they get pictures from multiple people, so it could be a mountaineer that
56:45
took that specific picture, but maybe not the person who runs it. It's
56:50
it's all a big mystery. I've never I've I wouldn't. There have been
56:53
times when I figured I think it's this person, but I found out that
56:57
it wasn't, So it kind of you know, or maybe they're just doing
57:00
a good job of hiding it. Yeah, I don't know. They're being
57:04
very coy about it, and I think, hey, go let Teger know
57:07
it's not me, even though you know it is right right exactly, For
57:10
all you know, Tyler, it could be me. I should What I
57:14
should do is I should reach out and say, hey, do you want
57:15
to record an intro like, hey, this is this is why com preps
57:20
spotted you're listening to No. I was like, you have to say your
57:22
name so I know who it is. Yeah, yeah, but yeah,
57:28
it's all. It's all good and uh and we'll do another week alrighty is
57:34
that it nothing else? We're good, By the way, really quickly,
57:37
when you're talking about Mikayla, you do have a good intern, because take
57:42
it from a guy who's had a bunch of interns over the years. Yeah,
57:45
and of those bunch that I've had, I've had one good one and
57:49
that was Mike A Chen. Yeah that was it. I mean the rest
57:52
of them, you never knew what you were getting. And you know,
57:55
there was times where I'd have to go in and I'd and you know,
57:59
with with all internal you got to edit the article a little bit at least,
58:01
right, Oh sure. Yeah. And my whole thing was always I
58:06
would explain to them what I changed, and they would still make the same
58:09
mistakes over and over and over again, right yeah. And it was like,
58:12
oh my goodness, with Micah, I would only have to tell him
58:15
once and he wouldn't make that same mistake, you know, and oh man,
58:17
he s'uld drive me crazy, but I know. And as far as
58:21
just stories, just regular stories, I don't know. I don't There were
58:24
probably the two stories that had maybe the most clicks last fall were the two
58:30
stories that MICHAELA wrote. One was about the Charlie Ayrer story when he kind
58:36
of went through that scare. And then the other one was when when there
58:40
was no game out at Linden and they did like flag football, Yeah,
58:44
they making contest or whatever else. Yeah, And she wrote that article and
58:49
that just went crazy viral. That went and got you know, five times
58:53
many clicks than any game that was written that weekend. Wild. And you
58:58
know she was She wrote the article, she did interviews, she took pictures,
59:00
she did she did everything. And it's always like the next morning,
59:04
booms, I get a message. It's like clockwork. Okay, your pictures
59:06
are in this folder in the shared with me document. Boom, go to
59:09
that like it's all. I mean, she took all the head shots this
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year for football. Yeah, she met me at every single you know school,
59:19
took all the head shots. Dominant, unbelievable, yeah, she dominated
59:22
absolutely. All Right, let's wrap it up, Tyler Again, thank you
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He's Tyler Anderson. I'm Royland Spencer. You've been listening to episode at two
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hundred and fifty one Spring Sports, a weekly wrap up here on the Welcome
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