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Whatcom Preps Podcast Fall Sports Recap - Episode 455 · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Greetings and welcome into the Whatcom Preps podcast. This is
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  Speaker 1: episode 455, the week six fall sports recap, and I
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  Speaker 1: am Tyler Anderson of Whatcom Preps. This podcast is dedicated
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  Speaker 1: to all the fall sports being played, except football, as
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  Speaker 1: that podcast will come out later this week. Walton Beverage
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  Speaker 1: has been a staple in our community for 95 years,
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  Speaker 1: and I will continue to work harder every day to
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  Speaker 1: make the fantastic people at Walton Beverage proud to sponsor
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  Speaker 1: youth sports and our community. They deliver superior quality and commitment,
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  Speaker 1: and I plan to do the very same. Let's start
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  Speaker 1: out by talking, as always, about cross-country. Of course, when
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  Speaker 1: we talk about cross-country, we've got to talk about Stauffer Insurance.
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  Speaker 1: Give them a call at 360-746-8803 in person. You can
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  Speaker 1: check them out at 1903 Front Street in Linden or
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  Speaker 1: online at StaufferInsurance.com. They are happy to help. No league
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  Speaker 1: meets during the week, but there was a huge meet
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  Speaker 1: on Saturday. It's always a big one. Looks like 162
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  Speaker 1: total schools there from all over the place. This was
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  Speaker 1: the Nike Hole in the Wall Invitational at Lakewood High School.
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  Speaker 1: And this is regarded as one of the biggest races
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  Speaker 1: year after year. And there was tons of races. So
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  Speaker 1: they It's an all-day thing. It starts out at 8 a.m.
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  Speaker 1: and goes to about 5 p.m. with multiple races with
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  Speaker 1: different levels of freshmen, sophomores, then JV, bronze, silver, gold,
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  Speaker 1: girls and boys. And then there's the girls elite, boys elite,
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  Speaker 1: and then varsity gold, varsity silver, varsity bronze. It's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of races with hundreds of runners in each race.
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  Speaker 1: So this is a big, big deal every single year.
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  Speaker 1: Whatcom County did pretty darn well, too, because in the
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  Speaker 1: in the five K girls elite, see home took first place,
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  Speaker 1: which is just amazing as a team. You're talking about
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  Speaker 1: there's teams from Oregon. There's teams from Idaho. They're all
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  Speaker 1: over the state of Washington. And Kirsten Ludeman took third
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  Speaker 1: place with a time of 17 minutes, 35.4 seconds. And
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  Speaker 1: Sloan Clines took fourth place. 17 minutes, 39.3 seconds. Samantha
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  Speaker 1: nip took 11th place and a little desk there took
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  Speaker 1: 20th place. And you think, man, that's, you know, but
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  Speaker 1: this is out of us, 135 runners. And these were
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  Speaker 1: only elite runners. So very, very great job there by
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  Speaker 1: the see home girls, which, you know, is kind of
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  Speaker 1: the spend the standard, right? We've, we've, we've gotten used
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  Speaker 1: to that and, uh, pretty awesome to see there. Um,
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  Speaker 1: in the, in the, in the girls silver level, which
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  Speaker 1: was kind of that, uh, um, a few down, see
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  Speaker 1: them took second place as a team. And, uh, Helen
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  Speaker 1: Butoh got seventh place in that race. Paige Ricks got 10th. Um,
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  Speaker 1: Mia Cook took 19th. So see, I'm still pretty good there. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: Michaela McBride took 26th. And again, this was out of, uh,
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  Speaker 1: 223 runners. My goodness. So, I mean, it just gives
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  Speaker 1: you an idea, right? It's pretty incredible what they've done.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to try to scroll down here to the
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  Speaker 1: boys' times here. And Whatcom County did not race in
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  Speaker 1: the elite, but in the gold for boys. Bellingham took
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  Speaker 1: fourth place as a team, which is pretty incredible. Linden
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  Speaker 1: took 14th place. But I tell you what, Linden's Luke
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  Speaker 1: Scouten finished fourth place in the gold race. which is unbelievable.
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  Speaker 1: 15 minutes, 44.6 seconds. That's a tremendous time. Jack Stoddard
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  Speaker 1: of Bellingham took 31st place. And Taylor Rush of Squalicum,
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  Speaker 1: 47th place. So, and this, again, this is out of,
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  Speaker 1: this is a lot. Holy cow. 372 runners. 372. Luke
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  Speaker 1: Scouten took fourth. And that's a segue right there. That
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  Speaker 1: is your Stauffer Insurance Runner of the Week. Luke Scouten,
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  Speaker 1: the junior from Linden, took fourth place out of 372
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  Speaker 1: runners in his division at the Nike Hole-in-the-Wall Invitational at
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  Speaker 1: Lakewood High School. Unbelievable job. And, yeah, just it was
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  Speaker 1: one of those where I wish I could be there
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  Speaker 1: for it. But Saturdays are very extremely crazy for me. And, um,
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  Speaker 1: they have been for the last, well, Saturdays in the
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  Speaker 1: fall season, I should say they have been for the last,
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  Speaker 1: you know, 10 years or so. Um, in fact, I
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  Speaker 1: haven't watched a college football game in probably 10 years,
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  Speaker 1: definitely not to start to finish. I might catch a
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  Speaker 1: play here and there. Uh, but it's one of the busiest, uh,
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  Speaker 1: start to end days, uh, that I ever have. It's
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  Speaker 1: Saturdays in the fall. So, um, it's unfortunate that I
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  Speaker 1: couldn't make it out to that race. Cause I, I
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  Speaker 1: really want to go sometime, um, just to see the
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  Speaker 1: kind of the massive humanity of so many people. Um,
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  Speaker 1: and again, I think I went out to it a
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  Speaker 1: long time ago. I'm pretty sure my junior year of
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  Speaker 1: high school, I went out to check it out. So
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  Speaker 1: went down with a bunch of us to, to go
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  Speaker 1: root on our team's runners, uh, when we were in
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  Speaker 1: high school. So that is it for cross country. And
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  Speaker 1: now we're going to go to boys tennis, which is
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  Speaker 1: the season's going to wrap up quickly because of weather
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  Speaker 1: and stuff like that. So this upcoming week will actually
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  Speaker 1: be the final matches of before they get into districts.
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  Speaker 1: And then as you well know, or maybe you don't know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe you're new to the varsity sport as a parent
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  Speaker 1: or something, but the state tournament takes place in May.
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  Speaker 1: So you qualify for state, you know, pretty much the
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  Speaker 1: next week. And then from there, you have to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's their time to get better. And so you can
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  Speaker 1: go win state. But as it stands right now, the
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  Speaker 1: conference records Bellingham leading the way at 10 and 0, Squalicum, 9-1. Sehome, 8-2. Linden, 6-4.
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  Speaker 1: And Ferndale is 3-7. This is a smattering of other
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  Speaker 1: non-Wacom County schools in there as well. We take a
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  Speaker 1: look at the top individual players. Let's see here. We
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  Speaker 1: can go from 10 all the way up to 1 here.
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  Speaker 1: And this is just players in singles competition. Ranked number
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  Speaker 1: 10th is Andrew Mao of Sehome. He's 6-1 on the record.
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  Speaker 1: He's moved up four spots. Wesley Miller is undefeated in
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  Speaker 1: singles at 4-0 for Bellingham. Bellingham's Nolan Dixon is 10-2
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  Speaker 1: in singles matches. Ben Ahn of Squalicum is 9-3. He
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  Speaker 1: is ranked 7th. In 6th place is Noah Schmidt of Squalicum.
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  Speaker 1: He is 10-2. In 5th place is Bronco Cook of Bellingham,
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  Speaker 1: who's undefeated at 12-0. In 3rd place is Michael Yeh
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  Speaker 1: of Sehome. who is 10-1, and the top player from
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  Speaker 1: Whatcom County is the number one ranked player, Leo Kuhn,
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  Speaker 1: who is 11-0. I got to see him play out
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  Speaker 1: at Linden this past week, and what's really fun is
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  Speaker 1: if you're sitting low enough to where he's serving towards you,
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  Speaker 1: and boy, to see that ball dive, and it's like
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  Speaker 1: someone throwing a 100-mile slider at you or something. It
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  Speaker 1: is pretty incredible. especially from that left-handed side. And his
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  Speaker 1: matches go pretty quickly, and I think a lot of
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  Speaker 1: it has to do with his strong serving, get those
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  Speaker 1: ones over with pretty quickly. But the defending state champion
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  Speaker 1: looking to do damage this week in districts, get back
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  Speaker 1: to the state tournament. So that would be a lot
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  Speaker 1: of fun. Hard to believe he's a senior now. I
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  Speaker 1: remember watching him as a freshman. He's really grown a
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  Speaker 1: lot and still quite a player. Let's take a look
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  Speaker 1: at the top doubles players. And Luke Swanson of Braylon
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  Speaker 1: Savage of Squalicum. They're ranked ninth. They're tied for ninth, actually.
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  Speaker 1: Hudson Daughters is in sixth place out of Squalicum. Jack
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  Speaker 1: Gebhardt and Wesley Miller are the two top doubles players.
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  Speaker 1: They're from Bellingham. So, yeah, it's going to be interesting
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  Speaker 1: to see how the doubles teams do, too. Going into
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  Speaker 1: the state tournament or, you know, I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: count my chickens before they hatch here because we got
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  Speaker 1: to get through districts first. But and we'll talk about
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  Speaker 1: that kind of later on in the podcast of kind
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  Speaker 1: of what's coming up this week. But Bellingham right now, really,
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  Speaker 1: really strong season taking control of the Northwest Conference. Still
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  Speaker 1: one match to go this week before we go into
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  Speaker 1: the postseason. Let's go to Girls Swimming and Diving, which
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  Speaker 1: Check them out at fairhaven.wwu.edu. Well, let's take a look
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  Speaker 1: at it here. There's still a few weeks left of
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  Speaker 1: this before we go into the postseason. Let's take a
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  Speaker 1: look at the top times in each event. starting with
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  Speaker 1: the 200 medal. relay. The Bellingham team of Carmody Beattie,
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  Speaker 1: Amanda Buck, Jasmine Garcia, and Jordan Ebeling holding strong with
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  Speaker 1: the top time about two and a half seconds ahead
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  Speaker 1: of the Sehome team. And they are, I think they've
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  Speaker 1: already qualified for district's I would imagine, but for state,
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  Speaker 1: they got to get about six seconds faster. So they're
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  Speaker 1: getting pretty close. In the 200 freestyle, it's Elsa Ethelbaugh
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  Speaker 1: of Sehome with an amazing time of two minutes, 5.42 seconds.
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  Speaker 1: That's nine seconds faster than the next time. She already
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  Speaker 1: has qualified for district and state. So congratulations to her.
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  Speaker 1: In the 200 individual medley, it's Squalicum's Jazzy Nelson with
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  Speaker 1: with a top time of 2 minutes, 27.26 seconds. Already
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  Speaker 1: qualified for district. Qualifying for state, about a little over
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  Speaker 1: five seconds away from that. In the 50 freestyle, Bellingham's
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  Speaker 1: Jasmine Garcia, 26.18. Holy cow. Really close to qualifying for state.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking eight one-hundredths of a second away. So Jasmine Garcia,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know if anyone was going to break 27 seconds.
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  Speaker 1: I keep seeing the mid-27s. We've got a lot of
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  Speaker 1: swimmers in that. Raha Gare of Sehome, Soleil Rubido of Squalicum,
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  Speaker 1: Madeline Honkoop and Claire Fleming-Butella of Linden. They're all in
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  Speaker 1: those 27s there. But Jasmine Garcia of Bellingham snuck in
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  Speaker 1: under 27 at 26.18. That is moving. In diving, Fiona
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  Speaker 1: Runnels of Sehome has taken the top spot with a
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  Speaker 1: score of 174.95. So she shoots up to the top spot.
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  Speaker 1: Pretty great score there. Some good divers around the city schools.
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  Speaker 1: In the 100 butterfly, Jazzy Nelson of Squalicum with a
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  Speaker 1: time of 1 minute, 3.80 seconds. Really close in front
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  Speaker 1: of her, in front of Jasmine Garcia of Bellingham, only
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  Speaker 1: one-tenth of a second or almost two-tenths of a second
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  Speaker 1: behind her. In the 100 freestyle, it is Jasmine Garcia
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  Speaker 1: of Bellingham with a time of 58.35 seconds. So the
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  Speaker 1: only one in Whatcom County to get this under a minute.
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  Speaker 1: So that is pretty incredible, 100 freestyle. That is there
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  Speaker 1: and back and there and back in under a minute.
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  Speaker 1: That is really, really moving and keeping a really good pace.
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  Speaker 1: In the 500 freestyle, Elsa Efeba of Sehome, 5 minutes
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  Speaker 1: and 36.63 seconds. That is good enough to qualify for state.
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  Speaker 1: I think she can really make some noise at state.
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  Speaker 1: That would be awesome to see there. In the 200
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  Speaker 1: freestyle relay, it's the Bellingham team, oh boy, really close,
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  Speaker 1: just barely edging the Linden team by about four-tenths of
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  Speaker 1: a second. The Bellingham team of Amanda Buck, Carmody Beattie,
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  Speaker 1: Jordan Ebeling, and Jasmine Garcia have that top time now,
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  Speaker 1: 1 minute, 54.48 seconds. In the 100 backstroke, it's Amanda
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  Speaker 1: Buck of Bellingham, who is basically one-tenth of a second
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  Speaker 1: faster than Jazzy Nelson of Squalicum. Both have incredible times.
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  Speaker 1: They're under a minute and 10 seconds. In the 100 breaststroke,
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  Speaker 1: it's Squalicum's Soleil Rubidoux of a time of 1 minute 14.65 seconds. Really,
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  Speaker 1: really close there to qualify for state. She's about just
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  Speaker 1: a hair under a second or a hair over a
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  Speaker 1: second away from getting there. And then the big one,
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  Speaker 1: the 400 freestyle relay. That's still the Bellingham team of
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  Speaker 1: Jordan Ebeling, Carmody Beattie, Amanda Buck, and Jasmine Garcia with
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  Speaker 1: a time of 4 minutes, 19.61 seconds. So we're starting
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  Speaker 1: to see these times dwindle, kind of like what I
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  Speaker 1: talked about in the beginning of the year where you
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  Speaker 1: get in the pool and a lot of times, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of these top swimmers, you can only do so
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  Speaker 1: many events each meet. So it might be two weeks
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  Speaker 1: until you do an event that you're really good at
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  Speaker 1: and then your name shows up on this list and
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  Speaker 1: that's really interesting when it gets to post season, you know,
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  Speaker 1: how they choose who can, and I'm sure it has
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  Speaker 1: to do with where they think they can do the
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  Speaker 1: best going forward, especially at state, if they can get
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  Speaker 1: to state. So it'll be really interesting to see, you know,
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  Speaker 1: where a lot of these swimmers end up, you know,
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  Speaker 1: which events they end up doing in the post season.
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  Speaker 1: Cause you could be the best at a certain thing,
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  Speaker 1: but you might not, it'd be more helpful for your
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  Speaker 1: team and maybe more individually as well. if you did
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  Speaker 1: other events. So we'll just have to wait and see,
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  Speaker 1: especially when it comes to relays and different things like that.
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  Speaker 1: There's some really good times and teams are, um, some
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  Speaker 1: of these swimmers are, are, and I don't know how
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the state goes. I know like Bainbridge
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  Speaker 1: is awesome. There's always schools that are really, really good,
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  Speaker 1: but individually, I'm not sure what the best times are
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  Speaker 1: out there in the rest of the state. So, um,
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  Speaker 1: but when you see like Elsa Epelbaum, what she's done
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  Speaker 1: in the 200 freestyle, uh, you know, in the 500 freestyle,
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  Speaker 1: it's like, okay, She might be one of the top
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  Speaker 1: in the state. She's definitely one of the top here
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  Speaker 1: or the top here. And it'd be interesting to see
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  Speaker 1: kind of what she does at the state level. And yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be great to see. So we'll just
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  Speaker 1: have to wait to see when that comes around. Let's
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  Speaker 1: go to girls soccer now and everything, everything girls soccer
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  Speaker 1: of soccer club, competitive and recreation. Always check and see
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  Speaker 1: those dates for signups and registration and all that so
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  Speaker 1: you can get your kiddo into soccer as soon as possible,
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  Speaker 1: get them going. And I tell you what, it makes
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  Speaker 1: such a difference. I've talked to some coaches and when
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  Speaker 1: there's a player that comes into your high school program
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  Speaker 1: that has a lot of club soccer under their belt already,
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  Speaker 1: holy cow, does that make a difference. And you're starting
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  Speaker 1: to see some teams improve dramatically because of stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: So check that out at North County Alliance FC. Well,
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  Speaker 1: let's take a look at the scores from this past week.
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  Speaker 1: We only had two days of soccer, Tuesday and Thursday
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  Speaker 1: as traditional. Sometimes there's Saturday games. I didn't see any
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  Speaker 1: Saturday games this week. And they've broken off into the 1A, 2As,
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  Speaker 1: and 3As. So these are the really important ones now
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  Speaker 1: where you're only playing against your classification within the conference.
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  Speaker 1: So in the one A's on Tuesday, Meridian beat Linden
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  Speaker 1: Christian four to one. And that was, that was a
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  Speaker 1: huge win on the road for the Trojans. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I think you kind of look at the links as
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  Speaker 1: being the class of the one A and they, or
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  Speaker 1: they have been for years and Meridian really making a
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  Speaker 1: statement there winning and not just winning, but winning big
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  Speaker 1: and on the road, Linden Christian, usually very, very good
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  Speaker 1: at home. It's a smaller field, So with that, you
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  Speaker 1: can really punch it. You can really pack in your
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  Speaker 1: defense pretty strong in the middle there. And especially on
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  Speaker 1: the boys' side, I know that's what they do for
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  Speaker 1: Lynn and Christian. And Meridian had a great game plan
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  Speaker 1: they executed. They went 4-1. Nooksack Valley also had a
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  Speaker 1: really close one over Mount Baker, 4-3, which I believe
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  Speaker 1: was the same score when Nooksack Valley beat Meridian. So
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  Speaker 1: a lot of these teams are having close matches there.
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  Speaker 1: which makes it a lot of fun. The talent level
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  Speaker 1: is starting to get together now from top to bottom.
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  Speaker 1: Seaholm beating Burlington 3-1. Bellingham all over Sultan 8-0. Lakewood
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  Speaker 1: topped Linden 2-1. And Anacortes beat Squalicum 3-2. On Thursday,
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  Speaker 1: Linden Christian did not like how it went on Tuesday,
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  Speaker 1: so they took it out on Mount Baker on Thursday,
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  Speaker 1: beating them 8-0. and Bellingham beat Linden three to zero
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  Speaker 1: squalicum beat Sultan five, zero see home over Lakewood, six,
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  Speaker 1: zero and Ferndale beating Oak Harbor one zero. So it
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  Speaker 1: was there. All five games were shutouts, um, on Thursday.
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  Speaker 1: So maybe some of these goalies are really starting to
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  Speaker 1: kind of, kind of lock in a little bit. And, um, and,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah, it's, uh, It's been interesting to see kind
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  Speaker 1: of where teams are shaking out. There's been some really
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  Speaker 1: streaky teams in both ways, good and bad. Let's take
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  Speaker 1: a look at the standings now. And the standings, when
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  Speaker 1: you look at the standings, I mean, Ferndale right now,
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  Speaker 1: they've won eight in a row. They lost their first
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  Speaker 1: match to see them. Then since then, they've won eight
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  Speaker 1: in a row. They're undefeated at home, 6-0. Bellingham's 10-0-2.
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  Speaker 1: They've won four in a row, and they are 6-0
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  Speaker 1: at home. They've got some big matches coming up this week.
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  Speaker 1: Sehome is 9-1-2. Meridian, 8-5. They've won two in a row.
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  Speaker 1: Linden Christian is 7-5. Squalicum, 7-3-2. Nooksack Valley, 5-5-1. Mount Baker, 4-5,
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  Speaker 1: but 4-2 at home. Linden has lost six in a row.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of hard to believe there. They are 4-9 right
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  Speaker 1: now on the year. And Blaine, who did not get
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  Speaker 1: a match this past week, they're still 2-6-1. But they have,
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  Speaker 1: after starting the season 2-0-1, they have lost six straight.
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  Speaker 1: Let's take a look at the goal leaders and assist leaders,
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: starting with the goal leaders. And we got a top
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: 10 here with a two-way tie for ninth place. And
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: it's a couple of sophomores that are pretty good on
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: the basketball court as well. Macy Kamenga of Mount Baker
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: and Mia Collins of Ferndale each have eight goals on
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: the year. And then a four-way tie for fifth place
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: as Sofia Dion of Bellingham, Kylie Ifsevich of Sehome, Vivian
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: Moss of Sehome, and Kayla Reeves of Sehome all have
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: nine goals. And that's what makes the Mariners so good
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: is they're very unselfish, a lot of assists, and they
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: got a lot of different players that could score at
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: any time. And it's pretty incredible to see. So you
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: got to be ready for that. Two-way tie for third
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: place with 10 goals each so far on the year.
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  Speaker 1: Luz Lane of Meridian and Kaylin Hinton of Lennon Christian
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  Speaker 1: have each scored 10 goals on the season. Pretty incredible there.
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  Speaker 1: With 13 goals on the year, it's Squalicum's Addie Wilson.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: So she shoots up to second place now, all alone
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: in second place. And in first place is Meridian's Ella Kratsoff,
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: who has 18 goals. Let's take a look at the
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: assist leaders now. And let's see here. See if there's
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: a big tie. No, there isn't. So we can do
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: top 10 here, but there is a, what is this?
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: A six-way tie for fifth place. So a lot of
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: players with five assists on the season. Kaylin Hinton of
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: Linnick Christian, Sophia Dion of Bellingham, Kylie Ivcevic of Sehome,
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: Sophie Koch of Bellingham, and then Meridian's Sophia Guzman and
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: Mila Krapsov all have five assists on the year. In
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: fourth place, Les Lane of Meridian has six assists. And
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: there's a two-way tie for second place with seven assists.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: Seaholmes Vivian Moss and Squalicum's Rylan Rockefeller each have seven
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: assists on the year. And then leading the way in
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: assists this year is Lyndon Christian's Lexi Yoon with eight assists.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: And I'll tell you what, I saw one of them
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: this past weekend. And it was so funny because... I'm she,
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: it was a, it was a corner kick and I'm probably,
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: I don't know, 15 yards away from the corner kick
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: up the sideline. And her dad is probably five yards
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: from me. And I hear her, I hear him saying, Lexi, like,
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: like make sure you get it high enough because, um,
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: I think he was saying, cause like the, the, it's the,
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: the goalie, the sun is in her eyes. And it
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: was just as simple as that. And then she kicked
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: it really high and Addie Molendijk headed it in. And
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: it was like, yeah, it's that easy. And then I
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: think she had another one on a corner kick in
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: that game as well. And so that's pretty cool because
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: I know I've known her dad for a while. We
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: used to work together. So that was fun to kind
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: of sit there and hear that exchange. And, you know,
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: some really great insight there. So pretty cool. She now
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: leads with eight assists on the year. Well, that brings
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: us to the player of the week. Of course, it's
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: the North County Alliance FC player of the week. And
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: I'm going to go with Addie Wilson of Squalicum. She
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: had a game. I think she had a game where
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: she had four goals. That was on Thursday. And she
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: had another game with a goal on Tuesday. It was
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: a rough game against Andacortes where they lost by one goal.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: But for a week, scoring five goals in two games,
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: That's pretty darn good. There was a lot of CLM
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: players that were definitely in consideration as well. But they
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: spread the wealth so much, it was hard to just
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: pick one. And so I leaned towards Addie Wilson of Squalicum.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: So congratulations, Addie Wilson. You are the North County Alliance
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: FC Player of the Week. Let's go to volleyball now.
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  Speaker 1: That's A-N-D-G-A-R.com. Well, let's take a look at the standings first.
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  Speaker 1: And Linden, you know, hey, they're just doing Linden stuff.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: They've already won their first 12. They're out and ahead there.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: 12-0 on the season. 12-0, I should say, on the season.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: I don't think they've even dropped a set so far,
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: which would mean they haven't dropped a set since the
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: semifinals last year. of the state tournament that was against Sehome.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: That was, and that was just one set. Um, so
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: they're still rolling along pretty good. Speaking of Sehome, they've
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: won six in a row. They're now 10 and two
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: on the year. Ferndale's won seven in a row. They're
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: seven and one. I think both teams, the last time
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: they lost was against Linden. So those are the top
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: three teams. And then in fourth place, Squalicum is eight
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: and three. They've won two in a row. Uh, Linden
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: Christian is seven and three Meridian after losing their first three,
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: they're now six and three. And so they've won six
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: in a row as well. Bellingham is five and six.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Next Lake Valley, five and seven. Mount Baker is two
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: and five. And Blaine's still looking for their first win.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: They are 0-10 on the year. And so there's, you know,
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: it's a little different in years past. Some things are
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: the same, but some teams are up, some teams are down.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: And yeah, it's going to end again with the schedule
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: right now. The classifications, much like soccer, are starting to
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: play each other. And we're in that We're getting into
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: that second round of games against each other where you've
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: already faced them once. These are the really important matchups here.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: And we're going to take a look as there was
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: games played five different days this past week. Starting on Monday,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: it was the 1A schools. Meridian beat Linden Christian in
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: four sets. Nooksack Valley beat Mountain Baker in four sets.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: So that was the Meridian over Linden Christian. I was
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: out there for that. And I think going in, Especially
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: when you looked at the coaches' polls, you saw that
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Lyndon Christian was ranked in the top 10. I believe
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: they were 7th. Meridian was just outside the top 10.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: So you would say, okay, well, Lyndon Christian is probably
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: the favorite team. But the game was at Meridian, and
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: they just really got things going. They were very close sets.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: I mean, they won the first one 26-24. So that's really,
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: really close. Lynx won the third one 25-20, but Meridian
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: put it all together in the fourth set, walked away
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: with a 25-19 win there. Nooksack Valley beating Mount Baker
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: was very similar as far as Nooksack Valley winning the
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: first two, Mount Baker won the third, and then Nooksack
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: Valley won the fourth. But Mount Baker taking a set
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: from the Pioneers, they did it last year too. They are,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: you know, you can't take them lightly. They will sneak
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: up on you and get you. But Nooksack Valley was
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: just too much there. Elizabeth DeLange had an unbelievable game,
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: 24 kills. She also had five blocks. And Nooksack Valley
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: as a team served up 21 aces. So pretty incredible there.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: Also on Monday, I just want to give a shout
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: out to the Squalicum volleyball team. I said in a
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: podcast a few weeks ago that I was just I
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: was curious if I would be able to receive a
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: serve and basically put it in play where it could
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: be playable for to get the point later on or
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: to keep the rally alive and stuff like that. And, um,
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: and they asked me, they say, Hey, you want to
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: check it out? Come out to practice, uh, Monday at
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: five o'clock and, and join us. And you can, you
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: can do that. And I thought, great. Um, so I
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: went out there and my shorts and my, uh, libero
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: shirt and, and I was all excited and I wore
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: my sleeves and everything. And, and I'm like, what am
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: I supposed to do? They're like, stand right here. And
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: it was, they were just peppering serves to us in
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: the back line. It was myself and Bronwyn Jones and
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: Penelope Darius. And we're, we're back there, uh, you know, uh,
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: doing receive serve. And I was on the right side and, and, um,
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: I would say that I probably was able to do
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: a good job on one of every five that came
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: at me that I thought would, should be playable. Maybe
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: one out of every four or something like that. Um,
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: it was a lot of fun. I was out there
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: for about 20 minutes and, uh, there is a video
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: on Instagram, uh, which, you know, I appreciate some of
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: the Squalicum players taking videos of me, which was probably interesting. But, yeah,
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: they were so pumped when I got there, and they
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: were really appreciative and had a lot of fun. And
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: I know, like, Abby Fife, who's really good at serving, hers,
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: I could not play hers at all. She's left-handed. And
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: she puts a good knuckle on it. And so I
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: called her. I said, that's illegal. You can't do that.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: And I said, it's not the knuckle. She's serving with
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: the wrong hand. You can't do that. But, boy, it
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: was so much fun. And so thank you very much
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: to the whole Squalicum team, Coach Morris, for allowing me
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: to come out and just be a part of the
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: program for 20 minutes. Even though after three minutes I
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: was so thirsty. I needed water bad. But the adrenaline
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: was hitting me pretty good there. And I had a
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: lot of fun. It was pretty sore the next couple days.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to lie about that. But it was
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: great to let the old man get on the court
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: and do some stuff. It was pretty fun. That was
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: Monday night. Again, thank you so much to Squalicum Storm.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: And then Squalicum. And then I saw them the next
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: night on Tuesday defeating Anacortes 3-1. So that was good.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: Anacortes is pretty good. They have some length on their team,
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: some heavy hitters. And so it was good to see
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: Swalicum come away with the win there. Bellingham and Sultan,
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: that took five sets. I was a little surprised at that.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: Sultan is struggling this year, but Bellingham, they've been playing.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: a lot better than I thought they would. They have
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: a lot of really good, young, talented players that have
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: come together well. But they hung on and beat Sultan 3-2.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: So that was a big win for them. Linden takes
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: care of Lakewood 3-0. No surprise there. Seaholm over Burlington 3-0.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: Then University Prep came up on a rare... non-conference match
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: in the middle of the week, and they beat Nooksack
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: Valley 3-1. On Wednesday, there was only one match, so,
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: of course, I went out to it. Lyndon Christian at
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: Mount Baker, really tightly contested first set. I think Lyndon
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Christian won like 25-23 or 25-22. It was very, very close,
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: and I think Mount Baker might have used up all
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: their fortune in that first one because Elsie kind of
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: cruised after that to win in three sets. and get
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: the win over Mount Baker there. Jocelyn Essay, she was
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: a force all over the court. 12 kills, 7 aces,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: 5 digs, and 4 blocks to lead the way for
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: the Lynx. So a great game for her. On Thursday,
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: a lot more volleyball took place as many teams played.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: Lyndon beat Bellingham 3-0. Casey DeYoung had a save in
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: that match that is– it's going to be up for
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: Pepsi play of the week. I mean, I was almost
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: thinking about not having a vote this week and just
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: saying she won it because I, you know, it was
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: unbelievable and it doesn't do it justice for me to
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: talk about it. You have to see it. So, so yeah,
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: that was a great, great save in that one. Linden
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: beats Bellingham three to zero. Ferndale beat Cedra Woolley three
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: to zero. Nooksack Valley over Blaine three to zero. Squalicum
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: over Sultans. three to zero see him over Lakewood three
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: to zero. So again, Thursday night, the night of the
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: sweeps or the shutouts, um, in sucker, they were all
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: shutouts and the volleyball, they were all sweeps and nothing
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: really surprising here is all the kind of the top
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: teams one. And then on Saturday, we had a few
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: volleyball matches as we had the center versus the St.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: Game husband versus wife as the two head coaches between
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: see home and Nooksack Valley, uh, battled it out, out and, uh,
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: Nooksack Valley high school. See home does get the win
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: three to zero. They're, um, big, big game again for
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: page Flory, 17 kills, 11 digs, two aces and a big, uh,
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: great job by her and Lindy Christian hosted Anna Cordes
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: and a Cordes. The Seahawks there, you know, they're feisty.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: They did steal a set, but they'll LC one three
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: to one. And, uh, the links looking pretty good. They're
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: just a young, probably had her best varsity match, um,
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: of her young career, just a sophomore. She has 13 kills, uh,
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: And I'm really excited to see her improvement, what she's
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: going to do on the basketball court. I think she's
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: going to become a force, especially this year. But seeing
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: what she did on the volleyball, it looks like the
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: improvement is going to be rapid in multiple sports. And
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: then Blaine hosted Mount Vernon Christian, but took the loss
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: 3-0 there as they're still looking for their first win
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: of the season. Let's take a look at the stat leaders.
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  Speaker 1: at apexnwvolleyballclub.org. So let's take a look at the stat
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: leaders now. And in kills per set, Still pretty much
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: been the same as it has been the last few weeks.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: Melanie Short of Meridian leading the way. Second place is
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: Finley Parcher. Third place is Svetlana Badak of Ferndale. Fourth
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: is Paige Flory of Sehome. And in fifth place is
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: Elizabeth Delang of Nooksack Valley. We go to Diggs Percet,
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: Bailey Burge of Bellingham leading the way, 4.68. Jackie Hurley
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: of Sehome, 4.16. Bronwyn Jones, my teammate for 20 minutes,
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: of Squalicum, 4.05. Lila Pereira of Lyndon Christian at 3.38.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: And Svetlana Badak of Ferndale, 3.30. In assists per set,
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: Brooklyn Larrabee of Ferndale leading at 10.33. That's a phenomenal number.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: Izzy Steffen right behind of Lyndon, 9.89. Taylor Terrell is
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: in third place. Kendall Stacey in fourth from Meridian. And
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: Nooksack Valley's Finley Mitchell is in fifth place. You know,
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: it's so funny. I see Terrell, Stacey, and Mitchell, third, fourth,
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: and fifth. And that's like all of their dads, awesome
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: basketball players. It's just funny how like you start to
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: see those kinds of things and you go, oh, that's
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: pretty cool. That's pretty awesome. I mean, good at other
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: sports too, but all three of them are really good
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: at basketball. And now we're going to go to aces
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: per set. Eden Bernardi, no surprise there, has 50 aces
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: on the year, 1.16 per set. Radler Rosellison of Sehome, 1.08.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: Next up is Kendall Juergens of Nooksack Valley, shot up
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: to third place, 0.8. Taya Vanderkooi of Linden Christian in
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: fourth place. And Hadley Grovo of Sehome has edged out
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: Lola Froese for that fifth spot. And in blocks per set,
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: Jocelyn Essice leading the way. Rebecca Soares of Mount Baker
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: in second place. Izzy Steffen in third place. Elizabeth DeLange
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: with a ton of blocks this week, moved up to
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: fourth place. And then there's a three-way tie, actually a
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: two-way tie for fifth place, Livia Weta of Blaine and
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: Brooklyn Flamer of Sehome, each averaging a half a block
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: per set. And I'm going to go to our players
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: of the week now. And the first one is the
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: offensive player of the week, which is brought to you
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  Speaker 1: by Angar Home Comfort. And this one, this one goes
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: to Paige Flory of Sehome. I just thought that she
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: was so consistent, so dominantly consistent. in many phases when
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: it comes to offense, you're talking kills and, um, aces, uh,
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: just a great job this week by Paige Flory of
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: see home. And she really, she's the one who really
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: gets her teammates going. You could see it on her
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: face after a big, big point. So fun to see
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: been watching her for four years now. And, and, um,
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: you kind of could tell as a freshman that she
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: was going to be one of those big time players
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: for years to come. And, and, um, she has become
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: one of those top players around in the conference. So congratulations,
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: To Seaholm Senior Paige Flory, you are the Angar Home
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  Speaker 1: This was a tough one because it was kind of,
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  Speaker 1: I was looking at three different players for this one,
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  Speaker 1: but the consistency, especially at the net was, by Elizabeth
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  Speaker 1: Delang of Nooksack Valley was pretty prominent there. So, um,
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  Speaker 1: Elizabeth Delang of Nooksack Valley, congratulations. You are the acceleration
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  Speaker 1: driving school defensive player of the week. Boy, she was
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  Speaker 1: up for offensive as well. Jocelyn Eslias was up for
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  Speaker 1: both of them. There was a, it was a strong
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  Speaker 1: week and it, these are big, big times now because, um,
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  Speaker 1: These are the matches against your own classification. So this
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  Speaker 1: is a lot of seeding when it comes to districts
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  Speaker 1: and stuff like that. Getting these wins is extremely important.
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  Speaker 1: So great job by so many of the players. Let's
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  Speaker 1: take a look at the upcoming week. And when you
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  Speaker 1: look at– let's go day by day here. So Monday,
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  Speaker 1: the big thing here, I'm looking at boys' tennis, Seaholm
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  Speaker 1: at Ferndale. Monday will be the final day, I think,
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  Speaker 1: around the county anyways. for boys tennis. And that'll be
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  Speaker 1: at four o'clock. So I'll probably be out there for that.
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  Speaker 1: That'll be fun to see. It's kind of the last
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  Speaker 1: one before they get into districts on Tuesday, swimming out
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  Speaker 1: of Arnie Hannah aquatic center at three 30 Ferndale at Bellingham.
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  Speaker 1: So check that out. Bellingham has some awesome divers too.
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  Speaker 1: So that the diving will probably take place at about
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  Speaker 1: three 45. It's really cool to check out pretty, pretty incredible.
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  Speaker 1: And then later on that night, Huge soccer match out
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  Speaker 1: at Bellingham High School. Seahome at Bellingham, 7 o'clock. I
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  Speaker 1: believe it was a tie the first time that they
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  Speaker 1: played each other. So this is a really, really big one.
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  Speaker 1: It has a lot of implications and seeding and different
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  Speaker 1: things to the top two-way teams in the conference. So
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  Speaker 1: this will be a lot of fun. That will be
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  Speaker 1: Tuesday night out at Bellingham High School, 7 p.m. On Wednesday,
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  Speaker 1: got some good volleyball matches here as Nooksack Valley at Meridian.
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  Speaker 1: at 7 p.m., and Meridian got the best of them
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  Speaker 1: in the first match at Nooksack Valley a few weeks ago,
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  Speaker 1: and now these teams are starting to get in that
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  Speaker 1: round where they're going to play each other again. That'll
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  Speaker 1: be at Meridian. It's going to be really hard for
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  Speaker 1: the Pioneers to try to get this one. It's going
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  Speaker 1: to be even tougher. Meridian is on a roll right now,
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  Speaker 1: and stopping them is going to be tough, but Nooksack
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  Speaker 1: Valley is really well coached, and they got Elizabeth DeLang,
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  Speaker 1: who's hard to contend with, And plus, they have a
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  Speaker 1: lot of good young players that are coming together pretty well.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll see about that one. And then also at
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  Speaker 1: the same time, out at Ferndale High School, Mount Vernon
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  Speaker 1: at Ferndale. I watched when they played about a week
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  Speaker 1: and a half ago out at Mount Vernon High School.
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  Speaker 1: And Ferndale won in three sets, but Mount Vernon did
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  Speaker 1: not let it be easy. So I'm really excited for
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  Speaker 1: this rematch here. I know they had a big match
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  Speaker 1: a couple years ago out of Mount Vernon that I
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  Speaker 1: think went five sets. So it could be a great one. Thursday,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of big stuff going on Thursday. First starts
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  Speaker 1: off with three days of tennis out at Sehome. You're
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  Speaker 1: talking about the district finals. Tournament here, I think it
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  Speaker 1: starts at 9 a.m. on Thursday. And it's the big,
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  Speaker 1: you know, there's singles, doubles, all that stuff. It's going
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  Speaker 1: to be Thursday, Friday, and Saturday out at Sehome High School.
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  Speaker 1: So that starts Thursday at 9 a.m. Then you've got
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  Speaker 1: a big cross-country meet out at Lake Padden. Nine schools
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  Speaker 1: from Whatcom County will be taking place in this one. Bellingham, Blaine, Ferndale, Linden,
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  Speaker 1: Linden Christian, Meridian, Mount Baker, Sehome, Squalicum. That will be
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  Speaker 1: at 4 p.m. out at Lake Padden. for a big
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  Speaker 1: cross-country meet. I'm excited about this one. I love going
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  Speaker 1: out there for cross-country meets and for me to be
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  Speaker 1: able to get pictures of all these different schools at
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  Speaker 1: the same time. There will be other schools there too running,
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  Speaker 1: but nine of them will be from Whatcom County, so
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  Speaker 1: that'll be a lot of fun. And then later on
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  Speaker 1: that night, we got a big volleyball match, Blaine at
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  Speaker 1: Mount Baker and And Blaine looking for that first win
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  Speaker 1: of the year. Mount Baker, their one conference win this year,
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  Speaker 1: was against Blaine. So this could be a really good
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  Speaker 1: rematch out there at the Deming Dome at 7 o'clock.
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  Speaker 1: There's also a volleyball at 7 o'clock. There's a big one,
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  Speaker 1: Linden at Sehome. Linden has not dropped a set all year.
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  Speaker 1: If it's going to happen in the regular season, this
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  Speaker 1: would be the night that it happens. And Sehome is
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  Speaker 1: extremely tough at home. So we'll have to see there.
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  Speaker 1: Plus you get to hear Coach Wood. on the PA there,
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  Speaker 1: which is always a lot of fun. That is 7
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  Speaker 1: o'clock at Sehome High School. And big soccer match, Meridian
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  Speaker 1: at Nooksack Valley. This will be on the new football
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  Speaker 1: field at 7 o'clock out at Nooksack Valley. The Pioneers
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  Speaker 1: beat the Trojans in the first match here a couple
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  Speaker 1: weeks ago out at Meridian High School. So if they
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  Speaker 1: could get them both, that would really be something. But
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  Speaker 1: Meridian is extremely tough. And I, you know, this could
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  Speaker 1: be one where they split the regular season. So look
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  Speaker 1: for Meridian to get the win here after, especially after
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  Speaker 1: picking up that huge win against Linden Christian, they're on
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  Speaker 1: a roll right now, but Nooksack Valley have a lot
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  Speaker 1: of players with a ton of experience, Peyton Duque and
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  Speaker 1: Gretchen Elmendorf. And these, these players have been playing for
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  Speaker 1: a long time and this is kind of their year
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  Speaker 1: to make, to put it, to put it all together.
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  Speaker 1: And you can really see that happening. So this is
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  Speaker 1: going to be a great match Thursday night at Nooksack
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  Speaker 1: Valley and at, um, Sid Lambert field though, with the
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  Speaker 1: new turf field and all that. That'd be great. Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: I love this. This is really cool. There was, first
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  Speaker 1: of all, there's a huge volleyball tournament out at Western
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  Speaker 1: Washington university. That includes a lot of Whatcom County teams.
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  Speaker 1: It starts at 9. A.M. But how about the one
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  Speaker 1: a state championship rematch from last year? Meridian is going
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  Speaker 1: to be at Chelan. That'll be at 10. A.M. As Meridian.
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  Speaker 1: And I think trying to think who else is going
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  Speaker 1: over there, man, I should have looked at, uh, It
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  Speaker 1: might be Linden Christian. I can't remember. But they're going over,
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  Speaker 1: and they're going to both play Chelan and Liberty Bell,
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  Speaker 1: I think, and get a couple matches in for some
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  Speaker 1: non-conference stuff. That'll be on Saturday, starting at 10 a.m.
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  Speaker 1: with Meridian at Chelan. Chelan, year in and year out.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how many state championships they've won in
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  Speaker 1: a row, but last year they beat Meridian for the
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  Speaker 1: state championship. So it's kind of fun to have a
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  Speaker 1: rematch here. And so we'll see how that goes. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: That whizzed by. A lot of information. I hope everyone
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  Speaker 1: was able to enjoy it and take it all in.
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  Speaker 1: Alliance FC, Acceleration Driving School, The Print House Design, Fairhaven College,
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  Speaker 1: and of course, Walton Beverage. This has been episode 455,
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  Speaker 1: the week six fall sports recap. I am Tyler Anderson
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  Speaker 1: of Walkin' Preps, and I will talk to you later
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  Speaker 1: this week.