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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 248 - Spring Sports Wrap Up - 3-31 · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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  This is Belliham Junior Ta Si Wirtree, and you're listening to the Welcome Perhaps
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  Podcast. Thayland, Rylan Go Baywalks. Greetings and welcome into the watcom Preps
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  podcast. This episode at two hundred and forty eight Spring Sports a week we
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  wrap up. I'm Ryland Spencer along with me as always this Tyler Anderson love
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  WATCUM Preps. Tyler, how we doing. I'm doing great. It was
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  another awesome week of just complete opposites of weather. There's some great days and
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  some really bad days and it ended really well. So uh yeah, it
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  was fun a lot, got a lot of sports in and looking forward to
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  talk about it. Another one of those beautiful Pacific Northwest weeks where you get
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  all four seasons, you know, Yeah, a little bit of everything this
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  week, Tyler. I saw some snow at one point, I saw some
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  hail. I saw some lightning. I saw the sun for a little bit.
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  I mean it was pretty crazy. But yeah, all in all,
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  a good week of sports. We got a lot of things to talk about,
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  but we need to start by saying thank you to Tyler. We're really
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  dipping into the bag here, I mean we're going to all these sports now
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  we've got Bellingham junior soccer player Titus McMurtry, who I guess we'll talk about
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  soccer here in a bit, but you told me he scored a goal this
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  week. Yeah, yeah, he's he's been coming on and he reached out
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  and he loves what we're doing with the podcast. He loves what Walking Preps
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  is doing with the graphics, the scoreboards, the ride ups and and he
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  reached out and just wanted to thank me. And he was asking me some
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  questions about some scores and I just said, hey, man, you want
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  to do an intro. It's like, yeah, let's do it. So
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  so that was really cool. So just so people know out there, if
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  they're interested, you always reach out and I might ask you to do an
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  intro. You never know. So had some had some fun shout outs this
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  week, especially on Friday at the track meet, which I'll talk about later
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  but but yeah, that's just how it works. And so it was our
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  first soccer intro. Pretty cool. And I guess we do need to mention
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  too, Tyler, like when it comes to boys soccer. The reason you're
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  able to do what you do for soccers because people are helping me out.
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  Oh absolutely. I mean, I'm going to a game every night just to
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  get a picture, but I'm not staying and watching the entire game and tracking
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  everything and keeping a stat sheet or anything like that. But there's the coaches
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  have been extremely helpful. Sometimes if I don't hear from a coach in time,
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  I kind of have a you know, a kid on each team that
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  I can reach out to and say, hey, you know who's scored for
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  you guys tonight. You know, maybe maybe maybe I have the score already,
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  but I don't know who's scored. Yeah. And so there's been a
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  few guys that have have helped out a ton with just kind of getting back
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  to me and giving me. Some of them just say you know me,
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  this kid, this kid, ye. You know. Some of them are
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  like, well, I had a header in the first half and you know,
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  and that and that tied the game up. You know, everyone's a
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  little different, but it's been awesome getting the information, getting the help.
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  I think everybody's collectively just happy that there's coverage. And that's what I've been
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  getting a lot of, especially going out to games and people thanking me and
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  and and noticing and and uh and another thing that's really cool, is you
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  know, you notice, you know, black people see me out of these
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  things. There's the silly walking prep spotted every time I'm wearing the exact same
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  thing, the red hoodie with the giant walking Preps thing in the middle.
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  I ordered four more hoodies, four different colors. Uh so i' mixed So
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  now I will appear differently. It's it's not like I just have one set
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  of clothes, you know. Yeah, so it'll it'll look a little different.
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  And I was even spotted this week, Yes, sidekicks spotted, Sidekicks
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  spotted. Granted it didn't get up on the Instagram as far as I know,
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  but I was spotted at a football event. But yeah, So that's
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  the thing Tyler is with this stuff is like you know, the help look
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  baseball, fast pitch, let's say, basketball and football, those are the
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  ones that you know are maybe a little bit easier for us to track and
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  easier for us to do things. It's the other sports that need a little
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  help. And so it's always good to have stuff like that because we want
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  to give those kids the pub that they deserve. In fact of the matter
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  is is that's what Watkin Preps is. It's there to do that stuff.
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  So so yeah, good stuff. We got Bellingham junior soccer player Titus McMurtry
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  on the intro. Tyler, we need to give a thanks to kurt Mayberry
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  Farm. Kurtaberry Farm dot com is the website. They are a fourth generation,
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  family owned and operated a berry farm committed to growing the highest quality berries,
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  strawberries, blueberries, raspberries. Tyler, you sent me a picture of
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  some strawberries the other day. Yeah, I was in ah, my mouth
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  was watering. We also need to give a thanks to North County Alliance FC
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  because they were so happy with what was on last week as far as sponsorship
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  that they decided to call you back and get more sponsorships. So they're adding
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  the daily recaps, the player of the week, and the weekly stat leaders,
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  Tyler, and you can find them at NCALLIANCEFC dot com. That is
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  their website. We mentioned it last week. They've got tryouts coming up here
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  April fifteenth through May eighth. That is the girls side, and on the
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  boys side, it's also April fifteenth to May eighth, but it's two thousand
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  and eight born boys up to twenty seventeen, two nine born girls all the
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  way up to twenty seventeen. So twenty seventeen, what would they be like
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  seven year olds like that. So it seems like two thousand and seven team
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  was like a year ago, doesn't it. Yeah, I know, it
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  just seems like it really does, and that they've got all kinds of stuff
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  going on. Tryouts are up there at Benderfields and Linden, So yeah,
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  go to their website NCALLIANCEFC dot com if you want to look at their the
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  tryouts. It's the website slash tryouts. You can find out everything they got
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  going on over there. Soccer is one of those sports that just continues to
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  grow in the United States, and I know Wacom County in general has always
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  been pretty strong as far as soccer goes. So yeah, Tyler, let's
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  talk. I mean, we got all kinds of stuff. We've got track
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  and field, we've got the boys and the girls. We've got boys golf,
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  we've got girls golf, we've got girls tennis, boys soccer within SEALLIANCEFC
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  dot com. We've got fast pitch, we've got baseball, we've got Players
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  of the week. Tyler. And it's nine thirty on a Sunday night,
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  and it's Easter for us, for us, the people that are listening,
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  they're going, what do you mean we were eating ham and turkey or whatever
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  yesterday? We were none of this easter stuff. But are you saying you're
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  egging me on? Or all right, let's just pretend like that didn't happen,
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  Tyler. Let's start with track and field here, uh in track and
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  Field is sponsored by Staffer Insurance. Our guy Marty up there one nine zero
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  idiot egging me on like I just can't. Oh my goodness. Uh,
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  two bunnies sitting next to each other and and and one of them has like
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  a piece missing out of its ear, and the other one has like a
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  piece missing out of its butt or something like that. It's like ouch,
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  and the the other one says huh or something like that, like yeah anyway.
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  Staffer Insurance, nineteen oh three Front Street in Linden three six zero seven
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  four six eighty eight three. Staffer Insurance dot com s T A U F
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  f e Erinsurance dot Com. Tyler, let's talk about the boys leader boards
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  here in track and field. Now we talk about this every week, and
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  really all we're gonna do is update you on the new top scores or I
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  guess lowest times, top times, top distances, whatever you want to say.
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  I guess. Track is one of those interesting things. Most of the
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  events it's about getting the lowest number, and then some of them it's about
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  getting the highest number. That's kind of interesting. Never really thought about it
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  that way. Let's see here. We've got the ones in blue on my
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  sheet here, Tyler, those are the ones that are new. So let's
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  go over those. We've got one hundred meters Tyler. Yeah. Jace clinkcamer
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  who owned it earlier in the year and then it was taken by Teaging Daughters
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  of Squalicum. Jace Clincanner got it back with an eleven point zero two time,
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  which is just insanely fast. I mean that is for some schools you
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  know up here, that would be close to a school record. So I
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  got to see it with my own two eyes, and it's pretty impressive to
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  watch him sprint. He's he is, he is something else you know,
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  how do athletes do like all these different events. Yeah, you and I
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  are going to have to come up with like a term that is for what
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  you and I are going to do, you know what I mean, We're
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  gonna go do all these different events, and you know we're gonna do like
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  so, I think we need to do the one hundred meters because obviously we
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  can't do the hurdles, Like, we're not even gonna try to do that,
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  And anything over one hundred seems excessive to me. Excessive. I mean
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  one hundred meters. It's like, you know, back in the day,
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  you'd go, man, that goes that's that's pretty quick. Now it's like
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  I walked down on that track because I was there on Friday. I was
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  there the very next day for a soccer game, and you know, the
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  track was empty and I'm looking at it going, I don't know if I
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  want to run that whole thing, I'd be afraid to roll up a hamstring
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  or something like that. We'd have to stretch quite a bit. Well,
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  I don't think either of us are going to be running all that fast.
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  That's true. That's true. Almost competitive. So it's kind of like,
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  I don't know yeah. Well, I mean I'm gonna win, but I
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  don't know that it's going to be a very good time. Let's see hear
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  Tyler one hundred and ten meter hurdles. Who we got in that one?
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  Yeah, Hunter Descense from Bellingham, which kind of came out of nowhere.
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  Dane Bichline has been the guy hurdles wise this year, but this was the
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  first time I'd seen Hunter even race, so that was earlier in the week
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  fifteen point five to five. And the one hundred and ten meter hurdles,
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  that's a really good time. Four by one hundred is meridian, Yeah,
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  and it was meridian before, but this was with a this was with a
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  different ending of the race. So Josh Elmer, Jase clink Canner, Dane
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  Bichline, and Caleb Young forty three point seven to eight. You know,
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  Casey Brennan was not at the meet on Friday, and so Caleb Young ran
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  and they got just a hair faster. So that's a new leader for Walk
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  County. Clink Amber doing a little more damage here with the high jump.
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  Tyler, Yeah, this kind of came out of nowhere. I didn't see
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  him jump on on Friday. I was hoping to at the Trojan Twilight,
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  which is always kind of that last track meet be right before spring break,
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  and there's a lot of Walking County teams that are involved, including Lummy,
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  which is really cool. And the Connor comes up and I've been to that
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  meet. This is the third third year in a row. I didn't see
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  him jump in the highjump, but he did it earlier, a five foot
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  ten high jump. And he's not a kid that's like, you know,
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  like a six three six or four kids. You see a lot of those
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  kinds of kids do the high jump. He's he might be close to around
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  five ten, So that's really really impressive. It's like watching Colby Ship do
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  the high jump too. He's a kid that's maybe five six five seven and
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  he high jumps like five six five seven. And it's just when you start
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  seeing kids, you know, jump more than how how tall they are,
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  it really stands out visually. You know, is jumping over yourself like being
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  able to bench press your own weight. I think it's more impressive than that.
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  I mean, you know, I think it's pretty impressive. I don't
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  know, Tyler, which one do you think you'd ever a better chance at
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  bench repressing your own weight or jumping your over your own height. I think
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  back in high school. While in high school, I could bench my own
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  weight, but I don't think I could have ever jumped, you know,
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  five to four. I mean I could jump pretty high. I mean I
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  could dunk on like a nine foot rim and I'm five. I was five
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  four at the time, but I don't think I could high jump five four.
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  You see some really good basketball players, varsity basketball players that top out
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  at about five six five eight, so and these kids are, you know,
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  six two six three, So I think I have a better chance of
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  benching my weight. Let's see here, uh triple jump a name that I
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  recognize, but not so far in the track season. Yeah, he's been,
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  I mean last year he was state champion in the triple jump, so
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  he's been slowly kind of getting his groove back on. He was like he
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  was around thirty seven thirty eight feet. But Mick Owen from Lenny Christian forty
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  two inch, which our forty two feet five inches in the triple jump,
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  which is kind of where I expected him to be earlier. But it's it's
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  kind of one of those events where man, it just looks so awkward,
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  but when you see the kids that do it really well, it looks easy
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  for them, it looks effortless. And so I got to see him do
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  it a few times earlier in the week out at Ferndale, and it was
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  just really really cool to see. And where I'm standing taking the pictures,
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  it was I'm kind of close, like I'm almost a little too close,
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  like I almost had to change my lens. And how far out he can
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  jump he's jumping towards me. I just thought, holy cow, Like the
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  difference between him and a lot of other people jumping was really significant and really
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  impressive to see. Let's talk girls track and field, and we've only got
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  two new leaders here, and actually one of them is tying a previous number.
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  But four by one hundred relay, Yeah, it's taken back by Lyndon.
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  I believe they held it earlier and then Seaholme took it. Now it's
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  back with Lyndon, Malia Mitchell, Faith Van Brocklyn, Ella Frericks and Kiki
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  York. Fifty one point three to three seconds in the four by one hundred.
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  That's a that's a really good time and and and that's a you know,
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  that's a good group there that three of them, three of the four
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  also holds the best time they have all year in the four by four hundred
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  relays, So you know they have a good communication in the handoff and that's
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  so much of the relay. I saw some relays on Friday and it's you
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  know, you could you could shave off a couple of seconds just by just
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  having a clean, you know, handoff to the next runner. I mean
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  it's the good teams do it less effortlessly, and you see them like in
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  the middle of the football field practicing just kind of handing off, handing off,
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  handing off and just kind of getting used to each other. And yeah,
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  it's pretty pretty impressive to see. In the high jump, we uh
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  have now two leaders at four foot ten Tyler, Yeah, Gracie pap which
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  I'm not surprised at all, just a sophomore at at Meridian, She's also
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  jumped four foot ten. She did it on Friday. Really got to see
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  her a lot as a middle blocker playing volleyball, and what what what really
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  stood out to me watching her was how she hangs in the air when she
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  jumps up to like block a shot on volleyball, or when she has a
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  kill because it's it's just different. It's just you just don't see that very
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  often where someone can just float it'll, you know. And I was like,
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  whoa, she's she's really athletic. She just kind of floats in the
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  air. So as soon as I saw that she was doing high jump,
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  I was like, Oh, this is gonna be awesome and and uh so
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  I got to watch that. Really really impressive. Just a sophomore too.
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  I I know, I've seen I've seen some girls high jump over five feet,
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  and I think she's gonna get there by the time her track career is
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  over. That is Boys and Girls Track and Field Leaders, brought to you
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  by Stoffer Insurance again nineteen oh three Front Street inlandon three six zero seven four
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  six eighty eight oh three. Stoffer Insurance dot Com is the website Tyler,
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  let's talk boys and Girls golf. And I'm just kind of going over some
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  things and kind of thinking about some things here too. Tyler. You mentioned
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  that it's spring break this week and there's not a whole lot going on,
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  So maybe next Sunday we're not gonna have a whole lot to talk about,
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  and I think it would be a good time to maybe like go back through
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  and give all of the leaders of track and field again, you know,
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  stuff like that, like maybe kind of update everybody, because there's probably some
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  people that are listening to the podcast now that haven't listened, you know,
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  previously or maybe in the last couple of weeks. So I think that's what
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  maybe what we'll do is just do like a almost do like a a spring
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  sports reset, you know what I mean, and kind of get back to,
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  Hey, this is where we're at with things. But let's talk boys
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  golf first, Tyler, and let's go over the top Watkam County golfers.
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  How many names we got here, one, two, three, four,
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  five, eight, nine, eleven, twelve, Okay, twelve of them.
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  Let's start. I mean, why don't we just go right down the
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  list, Tyler, and we'll start right at the top here with eighty eight
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  stroke average for a crew price out of Linden. Huh yeah, eighty eight.
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  I mean, it's it's crazy too, because you see some of these
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  scorers earlier in the year where they're over one hundred, and then they just
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  keep improving and now now he averages eighty eight. Nathan Larson at Meridian eighty
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  six point seven. He's a backup quarterback, so that's that's pretty cool to
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  see him out there golfing. Meridian's got a really good team. They got
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  four out of the top twelve golfers on this list. I think at the
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  one A level you start talking postseason, that's really really impressive. They're gonna
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  do pretty well. Zach Barns, who didn't play the first couple of weeks,
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  so his eighty six was from this past week, so that's another I
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  know another golfer for Sealim to add. I think they're gonna do pretty well
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  too. Ellis Griffin Blaine is averaging eighty five. He's been he's been getting
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  better as the season has been going as well, kind of lowering his average.
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  Gabe Quick of Sea Hill eighty four point three. Thomas den Hartog of
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  Lyndy Christian the Link's top golfer at eighty one point seven. Matthew Blankenberg at
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  eighty one point three for Meridian. Jack Stapleton he moved way up with a
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  really good score. I think he shot like a seventy four or seventy five
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  this past weekend, so his average dropped to eighty one from Lyndon. Travis
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  Brocky from Ferndale eighty point seven. John Cummer from Seahome is right at eighty,
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  which is what he was at last week. Daniel Blankenberg seventy two point
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  three. Incredible score there, like averaging right around par for the season.
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  And Baylor Larabie from Ferndale the top golfer in the county sixty seven point seven.
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  That is incredibly That is just that is you're looking at golfing in college,
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  but you doing that kind of stuff. So I am excited to go
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  out and go to one of these events. I haven't done it yet,
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  and I just want to see I want to see some of these kids because
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  it's really impressive seeing some of these numbers that have been put up. Yeah,
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  and somebody listening here has to know Baylor Larabie and they need to or
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  maybe Baylor Larbie's listening himself, but somebody's got to know because we need an
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  intro from Baylor Larabee because that score is ridiculous. Yes, absolutely, So
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  that is a young man that needs to hit up, walk the preps somewhere
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  and be like, yo, what do you need out of me? How
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  does it work? I'm ready for an intro. I'll tell you what.
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  In the past, I there's some Larabies that I know of. The Scott
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  Larrabee was the ex basketball coach at Ferndale for years. I remember that name.
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  Brooklyn Larrabee was one of the best volleyball players this past year. She's
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  just a freshman at Ferndale, So there's got to be some relation in there
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  somewhere. And I know somebody knows somebody, so I'm pretty sure we'll be
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  able to get that debt. Yeah, it just needs to happen at this
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  point. Tyler. Yeah, I think let's football over top girls golf.
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  And we've got another twelve names there, starting with a young lady out at
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  Ferndale with one hundred and fifteen stroke average. Yeah, Sadie Remmert from Ferndale
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  averaging one hundred and fifteen. Uh. And she's new to this list too,
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  so she's been improving. Joby Jensen from Meridian at one thirteen. Again,
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  this name we had, oh yeah with last week, but I think
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  you were on the right track. Kija van rice Wick. Yeah, I
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  think I think it's got to be like Van Rice Wick something like that.
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  Yeah. Yeah, And the first name is I don't know. I'm not
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  sure about Kiya Kaya Kiya. Yeah, I think it's got to be Kia.
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  I don't know, but yeah, so that's another one. Hey,
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  give us an intro so that we know how to say your name, all
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  right? Yeah? Yeah, from Blaine at one hundred and twelve, tied
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  with Mattie Taylor from Bellingham at one twelve. She she's new to the list
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  as well. Shot really well this past week. Dallas Ranky from Meridian,
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  top golfer for the Trojans that went eleven uh and also new to the list.
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  Another Blaine tough name el Yeah, Tan tan Wakio from Blaine oneh nine.
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  What's that I said? You think so, I'm not I'm not really
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  sure how to go at that with the tan Wakio. Yeah, that's I
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  mean tan Ya Tanya ko Tan. Yeah, I don't know, but you
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  might be right on that one. Yeah, that's tough one. Probably not.
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  I think we're probably both very wrong on each one. But yeah,
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  somebody at Blaine help us out, you know what, Let's have them both
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  doing it, do one intro, get together and grab one song. Elly
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  and I'm Ellie's friend. Yeah, and we're not gonna get either last name.
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  It's just gonna be first name. That's what. No, don't do
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  that please, yeah uh. And then another tough name, Lucy Jones from
• 21:33
  Lyndon at one oh six. She's the second place golfer for the Lions.
• 21:38
  Kaylie Anderson from Nukxack Valley had a really good week this past week. Every
• 21:41
  single week she cuts off about ten strokes each week, so that's really impressive
• 21:47
  to move into the number five spot from Nuckxack Valley. Marley McMahon from Sea
• 21:52
  Home at one oh four, Madeleine Angles from Lynny Christian one oh one,
• 21:56
  and then under one hundred is Cassie Hogan from Sea Home ninety two and walkin
• 22:00
  county's top girl golfer Kinsley Rector from Lyndon at ninety one. Wow, ninety
• 22:07
  one. I mean, I don't even shoot that in putt putt Tyler.
• 22:11
  Yeah, I know, that's impressive, and I mean that's that. Yeah,
• 22:15
  that's pretty impressive. She shot. She did really well this past week
• 22:18
  in a like a downpour, and that's tough. I mean, when you're
• 22:22
  battling the elements and a lot of golf is you're kind of going against the
• 22:26
  course you're going against yourself and the concentration and all that stuff. But when
• 22:33
  the weather is bad, like I've I've been golfed a ton. I mean
• 22:36
  I've golfed, but I haven't done a ton. But what I've heard from
• 22:37
  other golfers is, you know rain, Yeah, I can get past that.
• 22:42
  Wind is where it gets really tricky and so uh and it was windy
• 22:48
  this week, so it was that's pretty impressive to see the kind of scores
• 22:51
  they've been putting up. See for me, Tyler, when it comes to
• 22:53
  golf, the things that I have found that that are the trickiest for me
• 22:57
  the clown's mouth, well, yes, and the wind meal, But but
• 23:03
  the the when you talk weather, yeah, like yeah, rain, you
• 23:07
  know rain, rain can be a little tough because it you know your ball,
• 23:11
  it's the ground's gonna be a little bit soggy or sure, sure the
• 23:14
  wind is brutal. But for me, it's the sun and the clear weather
• 23:18
  that is really tough to get over because I'm just not very good. That
• 23:23
  being said, I do love golf. Golf is one of those sports that
• 23:29
  as a kid I was really good, and then I kind of didn't play
• 23:32
  a lot during high school and then kind of got into it again as I
• 23:34
  got older. The hard thing just becomes if you don't work at it enough.
• 23:38
  Oh yes, absolutely, It's just one of those things. So what
• 23:41
  I what I realized. Do you remember Leslie Nielsen's Bad Golf Made Easy?
• 23:45
  Yes? So when when I remember seeing that at one point in my life
• 23:49
  and thinking to myself, you know what, golf is one of those sports
• 23:52
  I'm never going to take seriously enough to be really good at. So just
• 23:59
  accept to who I am and just enjoy it, you know what I mean.
• 24:03
  Go out and eat some sunflower seeds and walk the course and you know,
• 24:07
  try to take as many strokes as I can because I'm paying for it,
• 24:08
  you know what I mean. Type of thring. So absolutely, yeah,
• 24:11
  that's boys and girls golf. Again, no sponsor for boys and girls
• 24:15
  golf. So somebody needs to reach out to walk the preps and get on
• 24:18
  that sponsorship. I mean, it would make a lot of sense if like,
• 24:22
  is there a pro shop up there or something. There's got to be
• 24:23
  a pro shop, right, somebody needs Yeah, there's some there's yeah,
• 24:26
  yeah, there's some stuff like that. I know. I know a guy
• 24:30
  that's a former pro that played it Blaine, and so I think he does
• 24:34
  stuff. So maybe I'll reach out to him. It's something that I haven't
• 24:37
  really thought of, and but it's or at least reach out and just maybe
• 24:41
  try to get a few ideas, like is there something that makes sense?
• 24:45
  Yeah? Absolutely absolutely. Let's talk girls tennis. Tyler and I'm seeing two
• 24:49
  teams at the top, but let's kind of bounce through and go through all
• 24:53
  of the six teams here. Ferndale one in three on the season. They
• 24:56
  are seven and twenty one in what is it called courts, Yeah, courts,
• 25:00
  Yeah, courts, courts won. And then Blaine oz and four and
• 25:03
  they are one in twenty seven. So let's talk about those two first.
• 25:07
  Yeah, Ferndale, I saw them last week. I think they got the
• 25:11
  window. I think believe it was over Lakewood and Blaine. You know,
• 25:15
  Blaine's been struggling, but they're not getting blown out, you know, they're
• 25:19
  just they're just not winning the courts. And so there's a few other teams
• 25:23
  that have been struggling that are outside the county, that are within the conference,
• 25:27
  the Lakewoods, I believe Mount Vernon, so really interested to see how
• 25:32
  they do when they when they play them, So it'll be we'll see Bellingham
• 25:37
  four and one on the season, Squalicum three and one, Bellingham twenty eight
• 25:40
  and seven in courts, Squalicum eighteen and ten. Yeah, this is this
• 25:45
  is a this is These are two really good teams. I've seen both of
• 25:49
  them. Bellingham the only team that got to play twice this past week due
• 25:55
  to you know, different rainouts and stuff like that over the week. And
• 25:57
  and Bellingham's really they're really good. They just I mean, Steve Cronister,
• 26:03
  their coach, is one of those guys that he's just one of those tennis
• 26:07
  legends. I believe he's probably in the w i A A Hall of Fame.
• 26:11
  I don't know that for sure, but but he's been around forever,
• 26:15
  multiple you know, championships, stuff like that. Just a legend. UH
• 26:22
  and Squalicum. Squalicum has been really really good. They just they just keep
• 26:26
  improving every single year. And and there's there's just those city schools are just
• 26:30
  really good at tennis and and really impressive to see. And UH on the
• 26:36
  two teams on top at four and oh Seehome and Lynden the Mariners twenty seven
• 26:40
  and one and the Lions twenty five and three. Yeah, everybody, we
• 26:45
  were all looking forward to this matchup on Thursday. Unfortunately got it got rained
• 26:49
  out. I was so jacked up for that. I was on my I
• 26:53
  was gonna go there, but you know, the weather kind of took a
• 26:59
  turn and I ended up going into some other games, and that was when
• 27:03
  I really wanted to see I don't know when if they if they've made had
• 27:06
  the makeup date scheduled yet or not. It's not going to be this upcoming
• 27:10
  week, but I hope it soon because I really want to see this again.
• 27:14
  I think Seehome has the advantage in the singles in these I think Linden
• 27:18
  has the advantage in the doubles. So now there's four singles and three doubles,
• 27:22
  so you think, okay, that gives see them the advantage. But
• 27:25
  it's kind of like those seven game series in baseball. You know, it's
• 27:27
  like the home field advantage, Like if you steal one at you know,
• 27:32
  on an opposing team's home court home field, then you kind of start to
• 27:37
  have that advantage. So if Linden could steal a singles match in there,
• 27:41
  then they could maybe have that advantage. It's going to come right down to
• 27:44
  it. I'm really excited for that matchup. I'm trying to do a quick
• 27:48
  little bounce through just to see if I see Linden and Sea Home here.
• 27:53
  I don't see anything leading all the way up to the tournament. Or excuse
• 27:59
  me, that's just the double tournament. Lyndon Squala COUM Linden Seahome Wednesday April
• 28:04
  twenty fourth. It looks as those when they rescheduled it April twenty fourth,
• 28:11
  he said, yeah, Wednesday, April twenty fourth, that was it going
• 28:14
  to be at Sea Home? Yes, yeah, okay, so that's what
• 28:17
  it is, Wednesday, April twenty fourth, four to thirty at Sea Homes.
• 28:19
  When it has been rescheduled. It appears so mark that one on your
• 28:25
  calendar. Noticed this too. Bellym coach Steve Cronister, who's in the Western
• 28:29
  Washington University Hall of Fame from twenty eleven, and this this is a this
• 28:34
  is something that came out a while ago. Sixty tennis seasons coached eight hundred
• 28:41
  dual meets one. Holy crap, So sixty seasons coach so thirty eight boys
• 28:47
  seasons, twenty two girls seasons. And his quote was, well, I've
• 28:51
  had a lot of good players and I'm really old. So and that's and
• 28:55
  that's awesome. I mean, that's that's coach Cronister. He's such a cool
• 28:59
  guy. You know, I got you know, when he sees me at
• 29:00
  an event, he's he's he's you know, he's all jacked up. He's
• 29:03
  like, you know, here's where you can go. You can walk over
• 29:06
  around here, you can take pictures there. And so really really helpful and
• 29:11
  appreciative of the coverage from Walking Preps. So this is gonna be an interesting
• 29:15
  couple of days here, the twenty third, twenty fourth, and twenty fifth
• 29:19
  Tyler of April, right, because both teams are gonna have to play three
• 29:25
  matches in three days. Wow. So Linden's gonna take on Squalicum on Tuesday,
• 29:32
  Seahome is gonna take on Bellingham, and then they're gonna both play each
• 29:34
  other Linden and Seahome on Wednesday, and then Linden is gonna host Anna Chordis
• 29:40
  and Seaholme is going to travel down to Lakewood. So that's three matches in
• 29:45
  three days, that is, And and you're just coming off the doubles tournament
• 29:48
  from the weekend before, right, Yeah, I mean wow, that's gonna
• 29:52
  be a pretty interesting three day stretch there for those two squads. It's gonna
• 29:57
  be tough. Yeah. Absolutely. Uh so that's the girls tennis. Let's
• 30:02
  talk boys at soccer and again boy soccer sponsored by North County Alliance FC.
• 30:07
  They are sponsoring literally everything, and Tyler I was looking at their website really
• 30:10
  quickly, and uh it kind of makes me laugh. But at the same
• 30:14
  time, what a great like line. High quality select soccer at an unbelievable
• 30:19
  price. It almost sounds like one of those like two am you know,
• 30:22
  like you want it, you got it? High quality soccer, you know
• 30:26
  what I mean? Like yeah, like like what was that guy's name,
• 30:30
  Anthony or Billy Mays or something like that, or what was his name selling
• 30:34
  the GINSU knife? Yeah, yeah, like something like that. Yeah,
• 30:37
  high quality select soccer at an unbelievable price. I love its awesome. But
• 30:41
  yeah, North County Alliance h yeah, great sponsors of watcom preps and everything
• 30:48
  going on. Uh let's see here, where should we start, Tyler?
• 30:52
  Well, you know what, and we we can't remember if we talked about
• 30:56
  this last week, So let's just Tyler, why shn't you just let everybody
• 30:59
  know kind of what's going on with Mount Baker this year? Yeah, so
• 31:03
  we you and I both noticed that we hadn't been talking about them and they
• 31:07
  hadn't played any games yet, and I had mentioned that some when I,
• 31:12
  you know, someone's commented on the scoreboard or something like that and said,
• 31:18
  like on a recent post that said something about is Mount Baker playing playing this
• 31:23
  year? And then another person comment, like we replied to the comment said
• 31:27
  yes, they're playing a JV schedule this year. So when I saw that,
• 31:32
  I thought, oh, okay, well that makes sense. But this
• 31:34
  past week they played Nook Sack and they played Meridian varsity games. So so
• 31:41
  I think it's kind of more they're just playing one A teams and so they
• 31:45
  did have a couple of games this week. They are owned too, but
• 31:48
  they definitely are playing a varsity schedule. Yeah, so that's it's good that
• 31:52
  they're they're playing some some varsity matches. We don't know a whole lot other
• 31:57
  than that as far as what exactly is going on, but that's kind of
• 32:01
  kind of what we know, if you will, let's talk. Let's see
• 32:06
  here, we got nine other teams to talk about here, so let's start
• 32:08
  with how about Ferndale, Nuksack Valley and Lynnen Christian the Golden Eagles two four
• 32:13
  and one, Nuksack Valley two and four, Lennen Christian one four and one.
• 32:19
  Yeah, this past week it was, uh, you know Ferndale got
• 32:22
  a win. Uh, and some of these teams the only they only played
• 32:24
  once and I and Nukzack Valley, Zuckzach Kelly lost a close one to Lynden
• 32:30
  won nothing or one nil, I should say, Uh, And it was
• 32:35
  and you know last year I think Linnen got him like eight nil or something
• 32:38
  like that. So it was much improved by the Pioneers. I'd heard that.
• 32:45
  You know. The Lions were kind of it's it's an it's it's weird
• 32:49
  because it's a non conference game technically because there's one A versus two A and
• 32:53
  it's different for other sports, but for soccer it's really it is broken up
• 32:57
  with with the classification even though you play them. And so that was you
• 33:02
  know, Linden tried out kind of a new formation, tried some new stuff
• 33:06
  and there was still a lot of miscommunication and learning that was going on involved.
• 33:12
  Uh, they still come out with the with with the victory over Nicksac
• 33:15
  Valley though, Uh, Linden Christian. Uh, you know it was they
• 33:20
  got, they got, they they picked up a tie and uh and that
• 33:23
  was uh that was against Blaine. So that's a that's a pretty good tie
• 33:29
  to get. Uh that's you know, Blaine has been up there in the
• 33:31
  standings for most of the year. So that's that's pretty impressive. Uh.
• 33:36
  Like I said earlier, Fornill, Fornil got the win. Uh they had
• 33:39
  they won two to one, I believe. Earlier in the week. Let's
• 33:45
  see here, how about Squalicum, Meridian and Linden. Squalicum and Meridian both
• 33:51
  five and two, Linden four, four and one. Yeah, Squalicum looks
• 33:55
  really really good. Got I got to see them against like Stevens Meridian.
• 34:00
  Meridian went three and oh this week. Got to see them a few times.
• 34:05
  They beat Mount Baker, they beat Blaine, and then they beat Sultan.
• 34:08
  I saw them against Blaine. I saw them against Sultan, and uh,
• 34:13
  they have one of their players who just who just came back and he's
• 34:15
  a sophomore and he had a great week. I think he scored four goals
• 34:19
  this week, Skyler Rowe. And so it's you know, we we we've
• 34:22
  talked about that in the past, where all of a sudden a player comes
• 34:27
  in and and and you know, it just dominates right away, whether it's
• 34:32
  because of injury or whatever. They weren't you know, they weren't available earlier
• 34:37
  in the season, and it's almost like signing a free agent in the pathway
• 34:40
  through the year, you know, And it just kind of gave Meridan a
• 34:44
  shot in the arm. And Meridan's a team that can score a lot of
• 34:45
  goals, and so you get that extra forward in there, and that really
• 34:51
  can separate them. So they're they're on a they're on a roll right now.
• 34:53
  Linnen is just staying at that five hundred right now. I think they're
• 34:57
  I think they're beating the teams are supposed to be. They're losing to the
• 35:00
  teams that you know they'd probably lose to, and and but they are one
• 35:05
  of those teams that as the year goes on, they tend to get better
• 35:07
  and better. So we'll see what coach Smiley has down the road. I
• 35:10
  think there's gonna be some big wins coming for him. Two teams in the
• 35:15
  county with one loss Bellingham seven and one Blaine five to one, and two
• 35:20
  Tyler, Yeah, Blaine with that tie against that tie against Leny Christian they
• 35:24
  lost to Meridian. That was their one loss so far this year. They
• 35:28
  only lost this year that was at home. And I was at that for
• 35:31
  a little bit really impressed. I mean, I just love the field and
• 35:35
  and not a lot of teams up here get to play on a on a
• 35:38
  nice you know, turf field like that, which is which is pretty nice.
• 35:42
  Bellingham, Yeah, seven and one. They've won seven in a row.
• 35:45
  They lost their first game of the year to see home uh, and
• 35:50
  and Bellingham had just been on a tear ever since, uh scoring a lot
• 35:53
  of goals and playing really good defense. You know, it's really it was
• 35:59
  really impressive because I saw that they had their they're like, they have their
• 36:02
  own player of the week for their team that they put up on Instagram,
• 36:06
  and they had Satchel Craig as their as their player of the week, which
• 36:08
  he I know him from from basketball. Really good athlete. But what I
• 36:14
  loved about that is he's a he's a defense he's a defenseman. He's like
• 36:16
  centered center defense and did never scored any goals, But that tells you a
• 36:22
  lot about it's not really a numbers game and stuff like that, and the
• 36:27
  and the importance of Bellingham not giving up a ton of goals. Yeah,
• 36:31
  maybe their goalies doing really really well, but maybe it's the defense, uh,
• 36:36
  the defensive players that are allowing you know that kind of that wall right
• 36:39
  before the goalie and you know maybe they're only getting three or four shots on
• 36:43
  goal the entire game. Well, that's because of the defensive players. So
• 36:45
  those are things that I'm trying to pay attention to. I'm really starting to
• 36:50
  learn about the game and try to find out like what positions are really making
• 36:53
  a difference and why this is happening. And and I've been to Holy col
• 36:58
  I've been to i think twelve games so far this here. Wow, And
• 37:00
  it's it's crazy, like how much I'm learning all the time. And and
• 37:07
  you start to see and you start to really notice the good teams and how
• 37:10
  they communicate and how they pass without even looking because they know their teammate is
• 37:15
  right where they're gonna be when they pass it and lead them. And it's
• 37:17
  really impressive. Bellingham's one loss to see Home Sea Homes, one loss to
• 37:23
  nobody. They are seven and zero on the season. Tyler the Mariners looking
• 37:27
  real strong, and yeah, absolutely, I am excited to see what they're
• 37:31
  going to do this year. I know that the you know, you and
• 37:36
  I joke about the RPI and all that stuff, and it's the way too
• 37:38
  early rankings and everything, but I think right now, I think they're ranked
• 37:43
  number one in the state. And I don't know how many other teams are
• 37:47
  undefeated at the two way level, but Seahome looks really really good, and
• 37:53
  it's just like I've seen them play and it is very different. I mean,
• 37:59
  the coach will just yell out one thing and then it's just and we
• 38:01
  talked about this in the last podcast, and then it's just they just do
• 38:04
  it. It's like they're controlling it, playing FIFA on the video game,
• 38:07
  you know. I mean, it is just it is machine like. They're
• 38:12
  all very very good. They all know their rules, offense, defense,
• 38:15
  everything. So really impressed to see what they've been doing. And it's fun
• 38:21
  to jump into a sport and see a team like that that is like,
• 38:27
  Okay, Tyler, this is what dominance looks like. This is what this
• 38:30
  looks like, you know, and I get to kind of see it all.
• 38:31
  So I'm really blessed to be able to cover them and see what they've
• 38:35
  been doing. That is the boys soccer scoreboard or excuse me, standings with
• 38:40
  I guess scoreboards involved because you just kind of went over a lot of them.
• 38:45
  Let's talk leading scorers who oddly enough sponsored by North County Alliance FC.
• 38:50
  You can check them out, Tyler. One thing I noticed, they're really
• 38:52
  smart in some of the stuff that they do. Yeah, their website right
• 38:57
  and SEEALLIANCEFC dot com, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, backslash NC Alliance FC.
• 39:04
  They make it incredibly easy to find them. Yeah, I mean that's
• 39:07
  huge and incredibly easy. Like that's how you do things right there, almost
• 39:13
  very similar to how Walkom Preps does it. Let's see here, Tyler.
• 39:16
  Well, we've got twelve names to talk about because there are a lot of
• 39:22
  guys that are scoring a lot of goals. Let's go tied for eleventh place
• 39:27
  with five goals. Yeah, it's just a couple of players that have been
• 39:30
  playing really, really well and some under These are some underclassmen. To Dmitry
• 39:36
  Yuryev from Blaine, it seems like every game he has a goal or an
• 39:39
  assist. He's got five and then Harvest Howell, the freshman from Lynnon Christian
• 39:45
  has five leading his team. So they're tied for eleventh right now in the
• 39:49
  county with five goals. Three guys tied at eighth place with six goals.
• 39:54
  Yeah, Isaac Grimes from from Squalicum. I believe he's just a sophomore,
• 40:00
  so that's that's pretty impressive. I've seen him up close a few times.
• 40:02
  Rudy Zercher from Seahome at six and then Katadan Fasani from Ferndale. Love watching
• 40:08
  him play. He's about I mean he's got to be about six foot three,
• 40:13
  so he just looks massive out there. It's like watching a chara on
• 40:16
  the ice or whoever that who's that is Dane o'chara. Yeah, I mean
• 40:21
  you're speaking to my heart Tyler Boston Bruin legend right right, And and he
• 40:24
  is really really good. He had an amazing week this this past week.
• 40:30
  Uh, and he's just full of energy. Love watching him play. He's
• 40:32
  got six goals Ferndale leading that team's Dane o'chara six foot nine. Then you
• 40:37
  throw on a few more inches for hockey skates. I mean, unbelievable impressive.
• 40:43
  Uh. We go from eighth place all the way up to a massive
• 40:45
  tie for third logjam if you will. There with seven goals, there's five
• 40:50
  young men all tied for third. Yeah, a couple guys from Sea Home,
• 40:53
  Li Liam Shoemaker and Noah Allen. Those are been the main goal getters
• 40:58
  for the Mariners, the undefeated Mariners. Uh. And they they really spread
• 41:01
  the wealth. They score a lot of goals, and he's you know,
• 41:04
  a lot. You know, they'll win six nothing and it'll be goals by
• 41:07
  five different players, and it's by no surprise. They're just they're just all
• 41:10
  very very good. Uh. Tarren Berks had an amazing week two. Meridian
• 41:15
  went three to oh this past week. He scored in all three of those
• 41:16
  games. Uh. Really really impressed with his passing. Uh. And he's
• 41:22
  super fast. UH new I'd noticed that on the basketball court, but with
• 41:27
  with soccer. His Uh it's almost like he could see things before they can
• 41:31
  happen. And his his passing is just dynamite and a lot of really good
• 41:36
  passes that sometimes don't lead to goals uh and are still noticed, are still
• 41:40
  noticeable. As you know, if I'm watching, I I really do notice
• 41:44
  that. But but he's scoring a lot too, seven goals to lead his
• 41:47
  team Blake Kuresky from Blaine uh Man just an intimidating, you know, front
• 41:53
  forward kind of player. Uh really really like him his game seven goals to
• 42:00
  lead the Border Rights. And Aidan Maguire who's just been on fire all year
• 42:04
  for the BayHawks. He has seven goals as well. Let's talk about second
• 42:07
  place where we get to double gingits we skip eight goals and nine goals and
• 42:12
  go straight to ten. Yeah. I really impressed it by Judas Strait,
• 42:15
  another guy that racks up goals and assists. Uh. And I don't get
• 42:20
  all the assists all the time, so I didn't want to post those stat
• 42:23
  leaders because I don't want to you know, leave people out, but I
• 42:27
  would imagine he would be near the top of assists as well. Really really
• 42:30
  impressed with him. I got to see I've seen Bellingham play just once so
• 42:37
  far this year, and and I for as long as I was there,
• 42:39
  I saw him score a goal and and just you know, really really good,
• 42:45
  especially on with his left foot too, which I know a lot of
• 42:46
  these soccer players can you know, are pretty equal on both sides. It's
• 42:51
  really impressive to see and just see the athleticism. I mean, I've been
• 42:54
  kicking a ball all my life, so I know what it takes for that
• 43:00
  kind of stuff. But to see them how they angle their body and and
• 43:02
  do the things they do, and and they're fearless out there. And it's
• 43:06
  rough out there too. I mean it's physical, using your head a lot.
• 43:09
  Uh, you know, there's some there's some shouldering, there's some pushing
• 43:12
  going around as well, but uh, just and there you're just running the
• 43:15
  whole time. Super athletic. Really impressed. Top of the leaderboard Tyler young
• 43:21
  Man from Squalcum with twelve goals on the season. Yeah. Simon Egner and
• 43:25
  that's not a pun on Easter, uh, really really impressive senior. He
• 43:32
  scored I think in the two games they Squalkmab had this week, he had
• 43:36
  five goals. Uh, so he kind of shot into that leaderboard. Judah
• 43:40
  Strait I think him and Agner both had seven at the end of the last
• 43:45
  week. So Agner shoots out atop now two ahead of straight on the year.
• 43:51
  Squalkum is. You know, they do have a few losses, but
• 43:53
  man, they are very very impressive. I tell you, Squalicum, Bellingham
• 43:58
  and Seahom all the two way level. I don't know, right off hand,
• 44:01
  how many teams get to districts, But I'm sure it's at least three,
• 44:06
  and so I'm really curious from districts how many will get the state.
• 44:09
  Boy'd be awesome to have it be a sweep from Walker County and from the
• 44:13
  same city. No less, these three teams have a lot of talent and
• 44:17
  some really good leadership. Yeah, that's unbelievable. Yeah again, thank you
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  Where do we want to start? Uh? Why don't we go?
• 45:10
  Why don't we start right here at the Bellingham and Squalicum Tyler both teams still
• 45:16
  looking for their first win. Yeah, but I've been seeing improvement. You
• 45:21
  know, a lot of the games earlier in the year, they weren't scoring
• 45:22
  a lot of runs. Now they're starting to score some runs. I see
• 45:25
  the storm, you know, putting up six seven a game. Bellingham had
• 45:30
  been struggling just to get runners on base. Uh, they scored six against
• 45:34
  South would be in a game earlier in the week, So that gave me
• 45:37
  a lot of hope for them as well. Uh, you know, it's
• 45:42
  it's so tough, especially when you're young and and you're trying to just kind
• 45:45
  of learn the game still. I mean, I you know, the but
• 45:50
  the questions are being asked. I mean, it's it's it's it's crazy.
• 45:53
  But it's a good thing because, uh, you know, I remember I
• 45:58
  can't it was one of the two schools. It might have been Bellingham where
• 46:01
  you know a player. I think it was the third basement. There was
• 46:06
  you know, there was one out, nobody on base, and she goes,
• 46:09
  if it gets it to me, do I go to first? You
• 46:13
  know, It's like the first thing I'm thinking is well, that's obvious.
• 46:15
  But what I loved about it was she's asking the question and the coach goes
• 46:20
  yes, first base, and it was just like, you know, I
• 46:22
  love that because maybe she's learning the game still, maybe maybe it's all new.
• 46:27
  And that's that's really tough because they had I mean, Bellingham had to
• 46:30
  play against Blaine this week. Blaine's the defending conference champions, and they're undefeated
• 46:36
  this year, and and they went up there and battled, you know,
• 46:39
  and and it's it's impressive to see uh and Squalicum. Squalicum when when when
• 46:45
  the year started and I saw them, you know, I was kind of
• 46:47
  looking at the names. I didn't recognize some of them. But it seems
• 46:51
  like every time I go see them, they've added another player or two.
• 46:53
  And maybe they didn't have enough practices or something. So, uh, I
• 46:58
  think they're going to start to come around. I am excited when these two
• 47:00
  teams, these two teams play each other because, uh, it could be
• 47:05
  a really really good game. I think Squalicum would have the edge there,
• 47:07
  but man, you never know. Bellingham's got some good players. Sammy stormo
• 47:13
  aj Accapinti, there are some really good players for the BayHawks. So we'll
• 47:16
  just kind of see how that shakes out when they play each other. See
• 47:20
  Home and Ferndale both teams one and three in conference play. See Home five
• 47:23
  and four overall, Ferndale at three and four overall. Yeah, see Home.
• 47:30
  They're they're a little bit of an enigma to me because you know,
• 47:32
  they played Monday down at Shorecrest. It was like a ten inning game.
• 47:37
  It was just crazy and and uh and they lost that one, but you
• 47:42
  know, they had their chances and they should have won. Then they got
• 47:45
  to turn around and play the very next day and they played out out at
• 47:49
  Squalicum and beat them twenty three to six. And then and then you know,
• 47:54
  then they'll have a game like they played against Blaine, and I get
• 47:59
  it against Blayane, Blaine threw no hitter against him. So it's it's just
• 48:02
  it's so it's all over the place. But SIOM is really really impressive.
• 48:07
  They have some good talent, again, very young as well. They do
• 48:10
  have some seniors on the team, but you know, you start looking at
• 48:14
  the roster and going, man, there's a lot of sophomores, you know,
• 48:15
  and and again it's it's getting to that varsity level. And you go
• 48:21
  up against Emerson Baker at Blaine and if you're not, if you haven't seen
• 48:23
  that before, it's gonna be tough. Uh. Ferndale. Ferdale had a
• 48:28
  rough week. They played some really good teams. They played. They started
• 48:32
  out against Lakewood, who's really really good and has a really good pitcher,
• 48:37
  but they scored six runs in that one. Then they played Linden, who's
• 48:40
  undefeated, and they lose to him only ten to seven, so that's you
• 48:44
  know, that's a pretty close game. And then on Saturday they went down
• 48:46
  to the Lake Stevens, who's got a ton of club players, and they
• 48:50
  lose twelve to six. So it's tough. But man, Caylin Blakely,
• 48:55
  I I don't know if there's been a better week. I think she went
• 49:00
  like I think she went ten for eleven with four home runs and like a
• 49:06
  triple and two doubles or something like that. I mean, it was just,
• 49:09
  you know, it was crazy what she's been seeing the ball so well,
• 49:14
  and she's just been just just just hammering the ball. And I got
• 49:19
  to go see her against Lyndon. I go out there, it was eight
• 49:21
  eight to two in the first inning, and I found out that she hit
• 49:24
  a home run in the first inning and then she hits another one in the
• 49:27
  third inning, and it's just like and it was pouring down rain, like
• 49:30
  it was raining sideways, and she's just still crushing the ball. So Ferndale's
• 49:35
  been impressive as well. But they're just they're you know, they're playing they
• 49:38
  really hot teams right now. You'll start to see their their their record go
• 49:43
  up as the season goes on when they play some of the other teams.
• 49:45
  Lynn and Christian and Nuksack Value both teams two and two in conference play,
• 49:50
  the Links four and two overall, the Pioneers two and three overall. Yeah,
• 49:55
  it was it was a tough week for both these teams. Burlington Beatlenn
• 50:00
  Christian eleven to five. Uh, Si Drow you know, got knok Sack
• 50:04
  really good twenty two to three. The crazy thing about that about that game
• 50:07
  is, you know, Si Drow Sidrow's really good. I mean, they
• 50:09
  have a great picture. They're gonna do some damage in two ways, especially
• 50:13
  in the postseason. Nuksack Valley scores three runs, all of them on solo
• 50:15
  home runs. Wow, how often have you seen that in a fast pitch
• 50:20
  game? Three times going yard Huh, what's that? I said? They
• 50:22
  went they went yard three times. Yeah, and they were all solo home
• 50:27
  runs and those were those those were their only runs. Wow, those were
• 50:30
  those were their only hits. That's incredible. So it's just something that you
• 50:34
  just don't see very often. And that's what I've said about Nuk Sack is
• 50:37
  they can they can hit, but you know they you know, they're still
• 50:40
  very young in the in the in the circle. So it's about, you
• 50:44
  know, as the pitchers get better and get more comfortable. Uh, we'll
• 50:47
  just kind of see how that goes late later on in the week. Uh,
• 50:52
  Lynn and Christian, Uh, you know kind of they they they took
• 50:55
  a Squalkum, which is kind of what I expected to do. Cassidy van
• 50:59
  So picked up her twentieth varsity win. She's just a junior. She just
• 51:05
  gets better and better every time I see her pitch. And then Nikzac Valley
• 51:07
  and this is kind of what I expected. They beat Anachordus nineteen to sixteen.
• 51:13
  Those are the kind of games that the Pioneers are gonna play. They
• 51:16
  can put up a ton of runs. They're gonna be long games. A
• 51:21
  lot of power in that lineup and a lot of athleticisms, so really really
• 51:25
  impressed by that. They have played each other already this year. Elsie got
• 51:30
  them pretty good, so I would give them the edge. But like I
• 51:34
  said, Nikzak can put up runs, so you just you can never discount
• 51:37
  that when you play against him. Let's see here, let's talk Mount Baker
• 51:42
  and Meridian. The Mountaineers three and one in conference play, six and one
• 51:45
  overall, Meridian, the Trojans three and two in conference playing, three and
• 51:50
  three overall. Mount Baker boy earlier in the week played against Mount Vernon and
• 51:59
  Annalie Kohne hits a walk off home run. I mean, you gotta love
• 52:04
  that. She was a she was a double away from the cycle and and
• 52:08
  you know with you know, counting the home run, but man, the
• 52:12
  game was tied at eleven, two outs, bottom of the seventh and two
• 52:16
  to one. Pitch hits it out of the park. She's the leadoff hitter,
• 52:21
  so she's not really known as a home run hitter, so it was
• 52:23
  really cool that she did that. Gracie Zender hit a couple of home runs
• 52:27
  in that game. Ava Jeretsky hit a home run. Mount Mount Baker team's
• 52:30
  got a lot of power in their lineup, really good pitching and so but
• 52:36
  man, that was they kind of eked that one out and then they took
• 52:39
  it to Oak Harbor a few days later. You know, Ava Juretsky allowed
• 52:45
  just just three hits, picked up her sixth to win of the season,
• 52:49
  and it was more of the kind of Mount Baker game that that we've been
• 52:52
  accustomed to. Meridian, they kind of had an up and down week they
• 52:54
  had. They also had a walk off win Lorelei Marginson. Uh, you
• 53:00
  know, she had a double to left field to win the game nine to
• 53:04
  eight against Anna Chordis. And the courtis they they're they're pretty good. And
• 53:08
  then they lose to Lakewood. Lakewood just got a really there to have a
• 53:15
  dominating pitcher and and I believe she threw a perfect game in that one.
• 53:19
  But then they came back the next day and beat South would be eight to
• 53:22
  two. Katie Prangaman the senior pitcher. She went four for four with a
• 53:27
  home run in two doubles, drove in three runs, and then she struck
• 53:30
  out thirteen batters and gave up just three hits. So she did a lot
• 53:34
  on her own in that one. Uh. Some Meridian had a really kind
• 53:37
  of up and down roller coaster week. But they're you know, above above
• 53:40
  five hundred in league play, and that's that's a huge deal. Two undefeated
• 53:45
  teams in Wakam County Lynden four and oh eight and oh overall, Blaine three
• 53:49
  and oh four and oh overall. Yeah, Blaine. Well they you know,
• 53:53
  they got they got Bellingham. That was kind of expected. I was
• 53:55
  out there for a little bit and but they you know, they just took
• 54:01
  care of business, got that one done. They won fifteen to nothing.
• 54:05
  But their win over Sea home fourteen to zero. Emerson Baker, the no
• 54:08
  hitter, struck out ten batters, really really impressive. And you know they've
• 54:15
  only played four games, which is kind of, you know, way behind
• 54:17
  everybody else, it seems like, but man they are. They haven't allowed
• 54:22
  to run since the first game this year, which was against Cedar Park Christian.
• 54:27
  I think they won nine to four, so three straight shoutouts. Really
• 54:30
  impressed by the border rides Linden. I mean, I've seen them play a
• 54:36
  couple times and it's just you know, really really I don't know, I
• 54:45
  don't even know how to put it, but it's like it's kind of like
• 54:46
  like up and down the lineup. It's like everybody is well above average,
• 54:51
  you know, the defense, the pitching, the hitting, the speed.
• 54:54
  You know, it's just kind of how Linden Sports is. They beat Okarber
• 54:59
  eleven to three, you know, really really just good overall game and that
• 55:04
  one Trinity Andrew was three for five, she got the win, she hit
• 55:07
  a triple. Campbell de Young stole three bases. I mean, she's she's
• 55:13
  like the Willie Mays Hayes of Wakam County. I mean, she gets on
• 55:15
  she's stealing, there's no doubt about that. She's probably she's probably got the
• 55:19
  gloves up on the wall, you know, of all the stolen bases.
• 55:22
  She has just really impressed. And then they they beat Ferndale ten to seven,
• 55:28
  and that that that crazy game with with the sideways, you know,
• 55:31
  rain and all that stuff, and you know, Ferndale hit four home runs
• 55:37
  in that game and and Linen Lennon won that game ten to seven. So
• 55:40
  really impressed of how they go into the spring break staying undefeated. Uh.
• 55:47
  You know, coach Barmbers just has a really good way of you know,
• 55:52
  just he commands that respect obviously, but it's you know, he always kind
• 55:57
  of has the same thing. He's got some speed, he's got some power,
• 56:00
  he's got his ace pitcher, he's got other pitchers that can't pitch.
• 56:04
  He's got them kind of the next pictures kind of in line ready to go
• 56:07
  that can throw, uh if needed, or have them go against kind of
• 56:09
  some of the subpar teams. Have them get some innings in you know last
• 56:14
  week not or not this week that we just had, but the week week
• 56:15
  before they played five games in that in a week. Wow. And uh,
• 56:20
  just so they got a lot of games in. They're at that at
• 56:23
  that point, only two this past week, but they're staying on top of
• 56:27
  it, and uh, they're just they're they're rolling right now. And again
• 56:31
  at that two way. You know, there's some there's some non walking Kunding
• 56:36
  teams. They're really good Lakewood, Seedrow Woolley. I'm really curious to see
• 56:39
  how they're gonna do against them. You know, Burlington's really really good.
• 56:43
  Burlington beat Mount Baker, So, uh, that's gonna be a crazy district
• 56:47
  tournament to see. And those are always really good battles and I'm I'm excited
• 56:52
  for when that comes around in May. That is your fast pitch standings,
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  nine and the website j e KK cards dot com. Uh, Tyler,
• 57:23
  let's go through these standings just like we did for Fast Pitch and Mount Baker
• 57:28
  squal Coom two teams both own four, own seven overall looking for the first
• 57:34
  wins of the season. Yeah. Mount Baker's been putting up a little bit
• 57:37
  a little more runs than, you know, than they were early in the
• 57:39
  year, but they're just giving up too many at the moment. And uh,
• 57:44
  it's it's, you know, it's just one of those things that's really
• 57:45
  too bad. There's it's kind of been that way the last couple of years,
• 57:49
  where you get these really good young players, you start developing them,
• 57:52
  and then when their seniors they go out and do track and that's just been
• 57:55
  happening over and over and over again. And uh, but you know,
• 58:00
  at some point it's gonna it's gonna turn around for the Mountaineers. I think
• 58:05
  they have a they play at Orchest this upcoming week and or against Orgust.
• 58:09
  I don't know if it's there or not, but you know, they played
• 58:13
  them earlier in the year they lost twelve to two. I think it's gonna
• 58:15
  be a much closer game this time. Uh squalk them, you know.
• 58:20
  I I really think they're gonna They're gonna come around. It's just it's just
• 58:23
  not happening yet. But man, they have some good players and some really
• 58:30
  good hitters, and and you know, the coach Fry is really good.
• 58:34
  I just I know it's gonna happen. It just hasn't yet. And you
• 58:38
  know, we'll see, you know, they they play. They played Bellingham
• 58:42
  on Monday, and I you know, even though Bellingham has a much better
• 58:45
  record, I can see that being a really good game. It's one that
• 58:46
  I'll probably be at. So I would expect both these teams to improve soon
• 58:52
  and and get some wins on the board. Now, Tyler, I need
• 58:55
  you to go to I need to go to the sheet and look at the
• 59:00
  standings here and tell me, yeah, make sure this is right. I
• 59:05
  didn't move things around. I apologize, it's right. I just didn't move
• 59:08
  them in the right spots. All right, you got me all screwed up
• 59:12
  here. Let's just go We'll just go right down the list, just leave
• 59:15
  it the way that it is. We'll just go right We'll go right here.
• 59:16
  Okay, we're gonna go Nukxack Valley, Ferndale and Seahome. Now Nuksack
• 59:22
  Valley is two and two, four and four overall. Ferndale's two and two,
• 59:25
  three and three overall. See Home one and three, two and six
• 59:29
  overall. Yeah, you know, see Home even though they have a you
• 59:32
  know, the two and six record. I love what they've been doing.
• 59:37
  You know, they beat Blaine a couple of weeks ago, and that really
• 59:39
  kind of shot them towards really competing against some of these better schools. And
• 59:46
  you know, they played Linden on Tuesday and Linden got them six to five.
• 59:52
  I mean that's a heck of a game. So I'm really impressed with
• 59:55
  the with the Mariners and what they've been doing. I love their sophomore class.
• 59:59
  They got some really good young players. Uh So I think that you
• 1:00:04
  know, they're gonna definitely win some games. They're gonna They're gonna find a
• 1:00:06
  way to get in that district tournament and make make some noise. Uh Fornill
• 1:00:09
  for had a pretty good week. Uh they beat They've shut out Lindon Christian
• 1:00:14
  for nothing. Lyndon Christian has been one of the best offensive teams all year.
• 1:00:17
  And then they got them pretty good. They had to go down and
• 1:00:21
  play your one need a team there and that did not go as well.
• 1:00:25
  It depends on who you are. And and then and then they played and
• 1:00:31
  then they played se home and got them pretty good. So they went too
• 1:00:35
  and one during the week and two and Zeroe Conference play in those games.
• 1:00:38
  Knoksack Valley. I love their improvement. They beat Burlington this week. I
• 1:00:44
  don't know the last time they beat Burlington in baseball. I mean, i'd
• 1:00:46
  have to you know, I have to go back and really check. I
• 1:00:50
  think it's been maybe close to ten years. Uh So, I'm just so
• 1:00:54
  impressed with what they've been doing. I you know, coached with Blair is
• 1:01:00
  really starting to change that culture and get them to believe that they can win.
• 1:01:05
  You know, I've been joking about him, you know, seeing him
• 1:01:07
  at football games, basketball games, and and he just kind of said well,
• 1:01:12
  we can't. We can't say we're young anymore. You know. He's
• 1:01:15
  like, we've been using that one for a while. Now we're now,
• 1:01:17
  we're experienced. Now we got to win. And they are, they're they're
• 1:01:22
  you know, they're winning games. They're four and four in the year.
• 1:01:23
  Uh. Just I when I saw them when they beat Burlington, I just
• 1:01:28
  I almost wanted to reach out and just be like, dude, I'm proud
• 1:01:30
  of you. Man. That's that's huge. And that's the belief when you
• 1:01:32
  say you can start doing those things, that they could start believing that they
• 1:01:37
  could win, and it's just going to get better the underclass. We're going
• 1:01:38
  to see that and that's how you change that culture. And it's starting to
• 1:01:42
  happen. Let's talk lynnon Christian and Bellingham. Bellingham two and two overall,
• 1:01:47
  four and four. Excuse me, two and two in league play, four
• 1:01:51
  and four overall. Lynnon Christian one and three and four and four overall.
• 1:01:55
  Yeah, lynnon Christians started off really hot, but they had a tough week.
• 1:01:59
  You know, they got shut up by Ferndale four nothing. Uh,
• 1:02:02
  and then they played Lakewood and got beat eleven to one. So it's just
• 1:02:07
  one of those weird weeks for the Links where you know, they play a
• 1:02:09
  couple of games they only score one one run really just you know, they're
• 1:02:14
  the team that you know has all the home runs in Walkin County. I
• 1:02:17
  think they've hit three as a team, four something like that. I don't
• 1:02:22
  know if any other team even has one. Uh And so they just somehow
• 1:02:27
  that you know, the offense kind of got shut down a little bit this
• 1:02:29
  week, and it's a good time for you know, to kind of re
• 1:02:32
  you know, you've got spring break going on. They are gonna play during
• 1:02:36
  the week baseball, but you know, maybe they need to kind of regroup
• 1:02:39
  a little bit and just kind of figure it out. It was just a
• 1:02:42
  tough week for them. Bellingham, you know, they beat they beat Baker
• 1:02:46
  ten. Nothing came around to play Meridian. I was at that game for
• 1:02:50
  a little bit. It was really excited to kind of see that at Bellingham
• 1:02:52
  Meridian. I thought that was gonna be a really good game. It was.
• 1:02:55
  Meridian got them seven to two. But Bellingham another one of those teams
• 1:03:00
  a lot like Nooksack where I you know, they they used to be kind
• 1:03:05
  of the punching bags of the league and now they're starting to get up and
• 1:03:07
  and they flirt with being above five hundred. I love that. I'd love
• 1:03:12
  to see the progression and what can happen if you believe in yourself and you
• 1:03:15
  just play really hard. And it's really starting to happen for the BayHawks.
• 1:03:20
  And they're a really tough team, like they're they they there's not a lot
• 1:03:22
  of weaknesses. You know, a lot of times you throw nine guys out
• 1:03:25
  there and there's a weakness somewhere. And if Bellingham is really solid all over
• 1:03:30
  the place, pitching, defense, speed, hitting, everything, and probably
• 1:03:35
  you know, their best overall player is out for the year, and so
• 1:03:38
  they're rallying behind who they have and they're and they're doing well, and it's
• 1:03:43
  been impressive to see. Let's talk Blaine and Meridian. Blaine one in three
• 1:03:47
  in league play, five and three overall, Meridian two and two and five
• 1:03:52
  and two overall Blaine. You know, ever since they lost to see them,
• 1:03:55
  it's been a skid ever since then, but they've played some really good
• 1:03:59
  teams. This week, they lost to Annichordus five to two. Kieran Marcuson
• 1:04:02
  suffered his first loss. Still hasn't walked anybody, but he did get roughed
• 1:04:06
  up a little bit by the Seahawks, gave up eleven hits, and then
• 1:04:12
  that right after that, they turned around and they played Mount Vernon, who's
• 1:04:15
  fantastic, and they lost seven to two in that one. So, you
• 1:04:19
  know, a couple of really really top end teams they had to play against
• 1:04:23
  a drop their record. They were five and zero. Now they're five to
• 1:04:26
  three, but you know, even worse off one in three in conference play,
• 1:04:29
  which is tough. Meridian Man, they played, they played a really
• 1:04:34
  good game extra innings against Oak Harbor. Jonah Aussi started that game, and
• 1:04:41
  he pitched the first seven innings, but he hit the pitch limit and he
• 1:04:44
  couldn't continue into the eighth innings. Struck out thirteen batters, allowed just three
• 1:04:47
  hits, he allowed two runs, but you know it was two to two
• 1:04:53
  going in the eighth and they lost it. They lost it three to two.
• 1:04:57
  So you know, you pitch a perfect game and then you pitch,
• 1:05:00
  you do everything you can, but you got to get pulled because of the
• 1:05:01
  pitch limit and and you end up losing. Well, they turn around and
• 1:05:05
  they beat Bellingham a few days later seven to two. Uh, A lot
• 1:05:10
  of guys did some really good, really good things. Trey Alexander the freshman,
• 1:05:14
  Ian's Forbes a senior. They each had a couple of hits. You
• 1:05:17
  know, it's Meridian that one a level. I'm really excited to see when
• 1:05:21
  they when they play Blaine. Uh, that's gonna be a good game.
• 1:05:25
  LC's gonna be in the running man. Like I said Nick sack Valley,
• 1:05:28
  I mean, oh, it's when they start playing each other and you start
• 1:05:31
  getting into postseason, it's gonna be it's gonna be a battles And there's always
• 1:05:34
  really good teams coming up from up South to over Lake, Bear Creek University
• 1:05:39
  Prep, Cedar Park Christian. There always are a great, great challenge.
• 1:05:43
  It's a it's a fun tournament. Once that happens. I know I'm getting
• 1:05:45
  ahead of myself, but man, I'm just getting excited. Top of the
• 1:05:49
  standings this week in Watkin Counties Lyndon four and oh in conference play and seven
• 1:05:56
  and oh. Overall, it's amazing. It's amazing that they're you know,
• 1:06:00
  they're undefeated because they're not blowing teams out. They just you know, they
• 1:06:04
  beat see Home six to five. Nothing's nothing spectacular. Uh, they just
• 1:06:09
  get the job done. When they when they need to get it done.
• 1:06:12
  If you know, they have a beginning when they when they need it.
• 1:06:15
  They but they're not like I said, they're not ten running anybody. They're
• 1:06:18
  just they're just getting wins. Then they play against Annacordus, who's really really
• 1:06:21
  good. Lane Simonson, you know, is the stud UH senior senior pitcher.
• 1:06:27
  He gets his third win of the year, gave up just one hit,
• 1:06:30
  although he did give up three runs, but just one hit. Lindon
• 1:06:31
  wins four to three. Again it's it's getting the big things when they happen.
• 1:06:36
  They were done three nothing in that game and the sixth inning and Tristan
• 1:06:41
  Thomas had a sacrifice fly that scored Cooper More. Then Austin Tolzman hit a
• 1:06:45
  double in the center field and scored three runs. Spencer Adams, River lang
• 1:06:48
  Stratt and Jaden Oakes and that's that was the whole game. Four to three.
• 1:06:51
  I mean, coming through in the clutch with runners in scoring position,
• 1:06:57
  all that stuff. Their numbers haven't been off the chart, but you know
• 1:07:00
  what the win callumn has been, and it's you know, four and zero
• 1:07:03
  league seven to zero overall super impressive. I mean Corey White, I mean,
• 1:07:08
  he's seen it all, he's done it all, so there's really not
• 1:07:12
  that much of a surprise there. But it is so cool to see them.
• 1:07:15
  I mean, they're they're you know, they're picking up wins and getting
• 1:07:18
  saves. You know that doesn't happen a lot in high school baseball. It
• 1:07:23
  looks like a legit baseball box score when Lyndon plays, and it's just you
• 1:07:27
  know, they don't commit errors, they do all the right things, and
• 1:07:30
  they just they just win the games. And that's that's really hard to say
• 1:07:33
  because you know, you know this better than anybody. Like you start looking
• 1:07:38
  at the pros and it's like football and basketball, like the best teams they
• 1:07:41
  usually win about seventy percent of their games, you know, something like that,
• 1:07:45
  seventy five percent of their games. A team goes twelve and four,
• 1:07:47
  you know, like thirteen and four these days, but you know, sixty
• 1:07:50
  something wins in basketball and in baseball. It's like every team is gonna is
• 1:07:55
  gonna win sixty games and every team's gonna lose sixty games. It's what you
• 1:07:59
  do with those other forty two. And it's like you start looking at that
• 1:08:01
  going if a team wins seventy five percent of the games in baseball, they
• 1:08:05
  they'd win like what one hundred and twenty games. That's the crazy thing is
• 1:08:10
  like a really good year in baseball, really good year is sixty losses.
• 1:08:16
  Yeah, like, yeah, you're gonna have sixty losses if you have a
• 1:08:20
  really good year, you know. Like that, we were predicting in the
• 1:08:26
  in the coach's office, what are the mari what's the Mariners record gonna look
• 1:08:30
  like this year? And I said, uh, ninety and seventy two,
• 1:08:33
  and everybody went, whoa wow? Really? And I was like, what
• 1:08:36
  do you mean that's you know, ninety and seventy two, Like that's not
• 1:08:40
  some crazy thing. And then I looked it up and the Mariners have actually
• 1:08:43
  been right about ninety and seventy two the last like five years. But you
• 1:08:46
  know, then you think about it and it's like, seventy two losses in
• 1:08:49
  a season just sounds insane. You have seventy two losses and you should and
• 1:08:56
  you should be making the playoffs. Like, but when you play one hundred
• 1:08:59
  and six I mean you know, I mean ninety wins, Yeah, is
• 1:09:04
  fifty six percent of your games? You win fifty six percent? Yeah,
• 1:09:08
  that's not very many. I mean that's like that's like a team going you
• 1:09:12
  know, nine and eight. Yeah, I say, yeah, like ten
• 1:09:15
  and seven, nine and eight something like that. Yeah, isn't that crazy?
• 1:09:17
  And that's what I mean about, like for you for a team to
• 1:09:20
  be undefeated in baseball, is it? I mean I was Obviously the high
• 1:09:25
  school level is really really impressive, especially when you're not just mowing people down,
• 1:09:29
  winning ten nothing every team. So you figure you're gonna drop one here
• 1:09:31
  or there. Sure, absolutely so, uh, and you're you know,
• 1:09:36
  it's to beat like Ana Chordus. I mean, that's that's awesome. And
• 1:09:40
  and we'll see how they do. They've always played really good games against Meridian.
• 1:09:44
  Those have been really close games. I'm really hoping it's Simonson against Aussie,
• 1:09:47
  you know, future teammates in college. Uh, that that would be
• 1:09:50
  a lot of fun. But you know, we'll we'll see. It's there's
• 1:09:54
  a lot of season left and and Linden and Linden will they will challenge themselves.
• 1:09:58
  They went down to Ridgefield and played in that tournament. They're gonna be
• 1:10:01
  down at Seala this week. Seala is always really good, so they they
• 1:10:05
  play some good top end teams and see kind of where they're at halfway through
• 1:10:10
  the year. That is stats, standings, and scores for baseball brought to
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  you by j e KK Sports Cards in Ferndale. Tyler, let's talk players
• 1:10:19
  of the week. No sponsor yet for the fast pitch there's still time,
• 1:10:24
  still time if you want to, if you want to hop on board and
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  sponsor the fast pitch player of the week, Tyler, So give it to
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  me. Who is the no sponsor yet Fast Pitch Player of the week.
• 1:10:34
  Yeah, I talked about it a little bit, but it's no surprise.
• 1:10:39
  Kaylin Blakely had just one of those crazy weeks. And you know, right
• 1:10:44
  off the bat against Lakewood who Lakewood who threw a no hitter against Meridian,
• 1:10:50
  by the way, the next like the next game, the first game she
• 1:10:55
  hit a double and two home runs. It was three. She went three
• 1:10:57
  for three, a double, two home runs, three RBI, three run
• 1:11:00
  scored, and she walked. The next game after that, she plays against
• 1:11:03
  Lyndon and she goes three for four with two home runs, four RBIs and
• 1:11:08
  three runs scored. And then plays against lake Stevens and goes four for four
• 1:11:13
  with two singles, a double and a triple and an RBI run scored is
• 1:11:16
  stolen base, so she only she only didn't get on base once. Wow.
• 1:11:20
  Sounds like me and T ball. Yeah, and hit four home runs.
• 1:11:25
  And I mean it's just one of those crazy weeks. So and she's
• 1:11:28
  catching. I mean, that's you know, that's really impressive. Caylin Blakely
• 1:11:32
  just a junior. I mean her batting. I haven't calculated the batting averages
• 1:11:36
  yet, but she's she's probably I think she's over eight hundred on the year,
• 1:11:41
  and it's it's super impressive. And like I said, she's just seeing
• 1:11:45
  the ball really really well right now. And man, I if I'm playing
• 1:11:50
  in the outfield when she's up, I am, I'm hugging that fence because
• 1:11:56
  right now she is in a groove. She's probably thinking, I don't want
• 1:12:00
  to be on spring break. I want to play because I don't think Ferndale
• 1:12:02
  plays again until you know, April eighth or whatever it is. So but
• 1:12:09
  man, what a week for Kaylin Blakeley. The Junior out of Ferndale SIG's
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  Funeral and Cremation Services Baseball Player of the Week. This one was a little
• 1:12:38
  tougher. There was a lot of different players that I could have gone with,
• 1:12:42
  and I was just kind of looking at all the games, and I
• 1:12:44
  was doing this earlier today and I had about five different players that I was
• 1:12:47
  choosing from. But I'm settling with Camden Raymond. And the big reason why
• 1:12:51
  is not because, I mean he got to hit every game and stuff at
• 1:12:56
  which he did. I mean, he hit a triple, He had a
• 1:12:58
  couple of RBIs against Lenney Christian a triple, Yeah you can, I mean
• 1:13:01
  that the locomotive pulling into the station. Yeah, my goodness. And he
• 1:13:06
  you know, against Juanita, they only had two hits. One of them
• 1:13:11
  was his. He had a double and he had a walk. And then
• 1:13:14
  against against Seahome, uh, he had a he had another hit. But
• 1:13:17
  combined with that, it was getting those two conference wins. And in one
• 1:13:21
  of them he pitched against Lenny Christian and and pitched a three hit shutout against
• 1:13:27
  a really good offensive team. So getting that kind of put him over the
• 1:13:31
  edge to be able to do both those things. I was thinking late lane
• 1:13:34
  Lane Simonson with that one hitter, but the complete effort of Camden Raymond,
• 1:13:40
  uh kind of put him over the top. So Camden Raymond is your six
• 1:13:45
  Funeral and Cremation Services Baseball Player of the Week. Now, Tyler, we
• 1:13:48
  got a new one this week. We got a boys soccer player of the
• 1:13:53
  week because North County ALLIANCEFC dot com or excuse me and Cealliance FC dot com.
• 1:13:59
  North County Alliance FC. They've decided to just sponsor anything and everything that
• 1:14:02
  we do as far as soccer goes. So who is the North County Alliance
• 1:14:08
  FC Boys Soccer Player of the Week. And this was tough too, because
• 1:14:12
  now I'm looking at it a little differently, and I was looking at well,
• 1:14:15
  Seehome had a couple of shutouts or clean sheets as they say, but
• 1:14:18
  how many shots on goal did they really have? And you know, and
• 1:14:21
  I was just looking at this, Well, this team only played once,
• 1:14:24
  but this team played twice against really good schools and they beat them. And
• 1:14:28
  I was looking at everything kind of judge everything together, and I'm going with
• 1:14:31
  Simon Egner from Squalakum. You know, really good competition. He scores five
• 1:14:38
  goals in two games. That's that's just super really really super impressive. And
• 1:14:45
  you know, you could look at a team that could score a ton of
• 1:14:47
  goals and if you look at their competition, you go, well, okay,
• 1:14:49
  I could kind of see that happening. I'm not too surprised. Yeah,
• 1:14:54
  that guy scored three goals, but the team scored seven or whatever.
• 1:14:57
  These were These were pretty big goals against big time teams and getting wins.
• 1:15:01
  So Simon Agner see them. Out of Squalicum is your boys soccer North County
• 1:15:06
  Alliance FC Boy Soccer Player of the Week again. Thank you to the sponsors
• 1:15:12
  for the players of the week. Tyler, let's take a look ahead at
• 1:15:14
  next week. Spring break is here, so some sports are off all together,
• 1:15:18
  and actually there's not a lot of games in general, but Tyler,
• 1:15:21
  it sounds like there are some some premium happenings going on here, especially on
• 1:15:26
  the boys side. I'm looking at the baseball stuff you got listed here and
• 1:15:29
  it sounds like it's gonna be a fun week. Yeah, a lot of
• 1:15:31
  baseball earlier on in the week Monday and Tuesday, a lot of league games,
• 1:15:35
  stuff like that, and then you start see some teams traveling, play
• 1:15:38
  some playing, you know, on the other side of the state, doing
• 1:15:41
  different things, different things like that. But Monday's loaded Lynden at Mount Vernon
• 1:15:46
  Sherman Anderson Field, four o'clock. That's gonna be an awesome game. I
• 1:15:49
  mean, you know, Linden's undefeated Mount Vernon. Are they gonna pay?
• 1:15:54
  Are they gonna pitch to save your nins against him? Boy, it's gonna
• 1:15:58
  be a lot of fun. That field to Sherman Anderson Field that I have
• 1:16:02
  a fond memory of that of that field that played there in a summer league
• 1:16:06
  between seventh and eighth grade. Didn't play there like as a home field,
• 1:16:10
  but we seems like we played there a lot when we play any scadget team.
• 1:16:15
  And uh, probably the best hit I ever had it hit off the
• 1:16:17
  wall, and it was you know, I was not a power hitter by
• 1:16:23
  any means. I was. I pretty much bunted almost all the time.
• 1:16:26
  And just one of those ones where you hit it just right against a really
• 1:16:29
  good picture and and so I'll never ever forget that. And I always love
• 1:16:32
  that field, and and so that's one where I might head down there and
• 1:16:36
  just check that out. I usually only try to go to U two Walking
• 1:16:40
  County teams, but that might be a really special one. Lynn and that
• 1:16:44
  Mount vernon Monday at four o'clock and then later that same day squalk him at
• 1:16:48
  Bellingham Baseball the Lewis Bowl. Coach Tom Lewis out of Bellingham. He's really
• 1:16:54
  changed it around. His son Colby plays third base for Squalkum. So how
• 1:16:57
  about that. I mean his coach to Lewis gonna be coaching third when Bellingham's
• 1:17:01
  up and his son's playing third, so they're going to be five feet from
• 1:17:05
  each other, you know, during the game. And how cool is that?
• 1:17:09
  So I think that's a really neat deal. And and something that we've
• 1:17:14
  been seeing a lot in Walking County with we saw with you know, coach
• 1:17:17
  beast and coaching against his son in basketball, Brad McKay at Bellingham coaching against
• 1:17:24
  his son Austin who played at Seahome and and and I was at both of
• 1:17:28
  those games. I was at that football game, I was at that basketball
• 1:17:31
  game. So I think I'll have to be at this baseball game, which
• 1:17:34
  is nice that it's a six o'clock game a little later in the day.
• 1:17:36
  Get head out there and under the lights and and that'll be a fun one.
• 1:17:43
  Just looking at it over Tyler, you're asking about Nian's is he going
• 1:17:45
  to pitch Ferndale? They play on Tuesday against Mount Vernon. So Mount Vernon's
• 1:17:51
  got back to back games there, so they got a little little decision to
• 1:17:56
  make as far as pitching goes. So that'll be interesting to see. Yeah,
• 1:17:59
  they do have some du it's I Oh, yeah, they got they
• 1:18:00
  got a couple of lefties. I mean, they got they're they're they're pretty
• 1:18:03
  loaded. But we'll see what happens. Yeah. Well, but what I'm
• 1:18:06
  saying there though, is you got some decisions to make, you know,
• 1:18:10
  absolutely, you know you you maybe maybe you feel a little bit better about
• 1:18:14
  the Tuesday game, so maybe you just want to lock that one in.
• 1:18:18
  Yeah. Interesting, let's talk to the girls side, Tyler, What are
• 1:18:21
  you looking at over there? There's not a lot of action going on.
• 1:18:25
  But one thing that I did notice was Mount Baker at Kashmere Fast Pitch.
• 1:18:29
  Uh. That'll be Friday. Every year at the end of spring break,
• 1:18:31
  Baker will head over to Kashmir and play there, which is kind of a
• 1:18:34
  neat deal. Coach left played at Kashmir uh in high school, so that's
• 1:18:40
  just kind of a fun deal. And and he knows the surroundings and and
• 1:18:45
  I just think that's that's such a that's such a really cool deal. I
• 1:18:47
  know that if I, you know, ended up, you know, for
• 1:18:49
  some reason coaching in Eastern Washington, I'd love to come back and like play
• 1:18:54
  against Baker, uh, just to kind of see how things have progressed and
• 1:18:58
  see what the field looks like. And I think it's a that's a pretty
• 1:19:00
  cool, pretty cool deal for them. And I know Cashmere is usually pretty
• 1:19:02
  darn good, so uh so that'll be that'll be a lot of fun.
• 1:19:05
  That's Friday at four o'clock. And uh, there wasn't anything else, but
• 1:19:11
  there is a track meet boys and girls. The Solberg Invite is on Saturday
• 1:19:15
  at Civic Stadium at ten am. Thirty one schools we're gonna be at this,
• 1:19:18
  including your Bothel Cougars. This is always a pretty good event. A
• 1:19:23
  lot of a lot of you know, really good teams are going to be
• 1:19:26
  there. Seahome will be there, Bellingham, Lynnen, Christian Uh so there's
• 1:19:30
  there's some good flavor for Walking County, but thirty one schools, it's kind
• 1:19:34
  of an all day thing. It has to be that that Yeah, that'll
• 1:19:39
  be one that I I tried to make. I think one year when I
• 1:19:42
  went it was just really bad weather and and hoping for a little better weather
• 1:19:45
  this time. But that's gonna be. That's gonna be a lot of fun.
• 1:19:49
  Burger Solberg uh passed away in the late nineties from from cancer. He
• 1:19:55
  was kind of a coaching legend. He coached uh, you know football at
• 1:19:59
  Sea and that's an I know Tyler, Yeah, Nooksack Valley, he played
• 1:20:02
  at Mount Baker. He's got a lot of ties with a lot of schools
• 1:20:05
  and and so this is always a really really cool deal. Like I said,
• 1:20:11
  thirty one schools and some really good teams. So it's a it's fun
• 1:20:15
  seeing that kind of competition. You kind of walk around and see, Wow,
• 1:20:17
  that guy's high jumping six six and whoa, that guy's pull vaulting fifteen
• 1:20:21
  something. I mean, it's that's really impressive. And you know, I
• 1:20:25
  just i'd be a lot of fun and I'd love to see that javelin thrower
• 1:20:28
  from from Bople. I want to see if he can see if he can
• 1:20:30
  get two hundred feet, that'd be so impressive. So yeah, we'll see
• 1:20:33
  what happens. I wonder, I wonder what he threw the other day.
• 1:20:38
  I wasn't able to get out there. And uh, and see we had
• 1:20:43
  a track meet on Tuesday and I wasn't able to get out there. Oh,
• 1:20:49
  he has a new personal record, Tyler, Oh tell me two o
• 1:20:55
  three nine. Holy Now, yeah, wow, that is I mean an
• 1:21:00
  absolute heave. Since they changed the javelin in two thousand and two, I
• 1:21:05
  believe it was no walking County thrower has thrown over two hundred feet since they
• 1:21:12
  changed that. Yeah, so I think Mark Schlichting was one ninety five eleven
• 1:21:16
  or something like that. And I was throwing jab at wazoo. So that
• 1:21:19
  is just crazy. Over two hundred feet with the new javelin that they've had
• 1:21:24
  for the last twenty some years. It's crazy. That's so impressive. Yeah,
• 1:21:28
  and I know he picked up an offer to go throw at I want
• 1:21:34
  to say the University of Montana if I remember correctly. But things are picking
• 1:21:40
  up for him, hot and heavy. I mean it is, yeah,
• 1:21:42
  I bet, Yeah, all of a sudden and again I think maybe I
• 1:21:45
  mentioned it before, maybe it's just you and me talking, Like this time
• 1:21:48
  last year, he wasn't even like he wasn't even really taking it all that
• 1:21:53
  serious. Yeah, I mean, he was just kind of doing it,
• 1:21:56
  having a good time. And then he went and placed really well in the
• 1:21:59
  state tournament and then was like, you know what, I think I'm gonna
• 1:22:01
  try to try to do this a little bit more. And then in the
• 1:22:04
  football season he was arguably our best defensive player at times. I mean he
• 1:22:09
  had quite a few sacks and was a dominant defensive end. I mean,
• 1:22:13
  it's it's always cool. It's always cool to see that of a guy who
• 1:22:17
  you know, just always long and lean and kind of a good athlete.
• 1:22:20
  And then also in boom, all of a sudden, here he is throwing
• 1:22:21
  the javelin two hundred feet. I mean, what the heck is going on
• 1:22:26
  there? You know? I want to bring up really quickly too that the
• 1:22:29
  track mean I was out on Friday was the was the Trojan Twilight. It's
• 1:22:32
  always a really cool event and I love going to it. I had so
• 1:22:38
  much fun there and there's a there's a few things that I really got to
• 1:22:42
  got a kick out of one of them, Thomas Cox, who we saw
• 1:22:45
  play football. He plays a corner for blame, but he throws the discus
• 1:22:48
  and if I was six feet tall, he might have taken my head off.
• 1:22:53
  I was. I was standing kind of out of balance and taking pictures,
• 1:22:56
  and he threw one right over my head. And you could see like
• 1:22:59
  a lot of the coaches going like, oh, are you okay? Are
• 1:23:02
  you gonna give a little less pub to Blaine on and walk the preps,
• 1:23:05
  you know, and even Thomas is like, I'm sorry, Tyler, but
• 1:23:10
  he almost Domediah huh threw one out of bounds. And then right after that,
• 1:23:15
  I saw Keen Coppinger throw a disc over one hundred and sixty feet,
• 1:23:17
  which is his personal best, second best in school history, which is really
• 1:23:21
  impressive. During the thirty two hundred, this was awesome. I'm standing like
• 1:23:28
  just inside the track and I'm watching some shot put throwers and then they start.
• 1:23:32
  They start the thirty two hundred, you know, eight laps around,
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  it's pretty long race. And the guy who's up, who's ahead. He
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  took second as Cam Scott from from Mount Baker, And during his second lap,
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  I'm probably five feet from the inside lane and I'm just taking pictures and
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  he's like, what's up, Tyler, And he said it during his second
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  lap, and I've never talked to him in my life, and I just
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  thought that was so funny and I got such a such a kick out of
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  it. I reached out to him afterwards. I was like, hey,
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  man, thanks for the shout out during your second lap of the thirty two
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  hundred. And he's like, dude, that was awesome, you know.
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  And uh. And then at the end of the night, near near the
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  end of the night, you love this. They took all the they did
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  the throwers sprint like a four by one or just no, no, a
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  sixty yard sprint and they you know, this was Keyen Coppinger, Alex Mololi,
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  Jaden Winslow from Blaine, and and and oh man, what's his name?
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  Cayden clink Camer from Ridan Who's is his twin brother is Jason clink Cammer.
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  But they're they're completely built differently, and uh, twin brother. Yeah.
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  And Cayden clink Camer he played football. He was a nose tackle.
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  I was gonna say, this is starting to sound like a really good defensive
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  line here. In this world. I was gonna say, yeah, these
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  guys are all linemen, and maybe not fair because Clink Camra is probably about
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  a buck eighty and you know, Coppinger's about two eighty, Molowe's about two
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  twenty five and and Winsle is about two to forty five. Uh, Clink
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  camera won it. But instead of the tape, they're holding a dozen donuts
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  at the at the finished side. And I just I just got a kick
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  out. Now. Both Coppinger and Mololy lost their shoe during the race.
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  They're running, They're running so hard and so fast. I see a shoe
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  like hanging off of Alex's foot. He's like, I lost my shoe.
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  And as he was saying that, I see a shoe fly up in the
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  air about twenty feet from Key and Coppinger. Uh, these guys are not
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  wearing sprinter shoes. But it was awesome seeing them getting I mean I saw
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  Melowly getting his four point stands. It was it was. It was awesome
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  to see and and just what a what a fun event. Uh love love
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  being there for that. I was walking around for probably four hours, Uh,
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  just taking pictures, taking all in the weather was great and uh,
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  it's always kind of a fun kind of launch into the spring break. I've
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  been at that event a lot the last couple of years, but I just
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  thought i'd share those little moments because it was it was pretty cool and and
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  what's cool that attract me is that you know, the athletes have just come
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  up and just start talking to you. You know, there's you know,
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  they have some time between events. Sometimes they're really I mean I saw Josh
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  den Elmer running from javelin to run a relay team to go over and throw
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  the disc to go. I mean, he's doing all these different things and
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  he's like, you know, he's just he's all over the place. But
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  it's, uh, those are just so cool. So many people came up
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  and said said hey, and and uh you know yelled out walking perps.
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  There's another picture of me taken from that thing put on the rep spotted YEP.
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  So always always a really fun event and just wanted to you know,
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  thank everyone there for their hospitality because it was it made me feel really good
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  and it was just fun just to get the shout outs and the different guys
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  saying things and and that that you know, the sixty yard thrower sprint was
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  awesome. And did they clime that. I don't even think they timed it.
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  Yeah, I mean it wasn't even on the you know, the track
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  with a sun dial. Yeah, I don't know. They were moving pretty
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  good. I got some good pictures of it. I was standing right there
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  the you know, probably fifteen yards behind the I was kind of down in
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  the middle there taking pictures of they were running past me and and yeah,
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  it was awesome. And then there's just don't and everybody's getting around and rooting
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  for their their for their you know, their athlete on that race. A
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  lot of fun, a lot of fun. All righty, Tyler, are
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  we done? We are nothing else to talk about here. Let's give one
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  last thank you to all of our sponsors. SIG Funeral and Creation Services,
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  out to Tyler H in the direct messages and he will get you taken care
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  of. That being said, he's Tyler Anderson, Walkompreps, walkompreps dot com.
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  I'm Ryland Spencer. You've been listening to episode at two hundred and forty
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  eight Spring Sports Weekly wrap up here on the walkom Preps podcast. We will
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  talk to you next week from Mount Baker High School. Nope, from our houses.